ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,108, issued on May 5, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"High bandwidth travelling wave electro absorption modulator (EAM) chip" was invented by Moshe B. Oron (Yokneam, Israel), Elad Mentovich (Yokneam, Israel), Tali Septon (Yokneam, Israel), Oren Steinberg (Yokneam, Israel) and Isabelle Cestier (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High bandwidth (e.g., less than100 GHz) modulators and methods of fabricating such are provided. An EAM comprises a waveguide mesa comprising a continuous multi-quantum well (MQW) layer; a plurality of electrode segments disposed on the waveguide mesa; and a microstrip ...