ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,469, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Optical communication cable with selective communication states" was invented by Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas (Piraeus, Greece), Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Ilion, Greece), Avraham Ganor (Shoham, Israel), Nikolaos Argyris (Zografou, Greece), Nimer Hazin (Bu'ayna Village, Israel), Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (Papagou, Greece) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for optical communication with selective communication states. An example optical communication cable formed of one or more ...