ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,476, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical transmitter including splitting elements, external modulators, and wavelength multiplexers, and optical transceiver including polarization separation elements, wavelength demultiplexers, polarization rotation elements, and photodetectors" was invented by Kei Masuyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmitter splits each of pieces of continuous wave light with N different wavelengths into M, and includes: a plurality of splitting elements to each split input light into two, N of the plurality of splitting elements to which the pieces o...