US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on May 26 for "Reconfigurable wavelength selective splitter" (Massachusetts, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,552, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Reconfigurable wavelength selective splitter" was invented by Keisuke Kojima (Weston, Mass.), Minwoo Jung (Ithaca, Mass.), Toshiaki Koike Akino (Belmont, Ala.), Ye Wang (Andover, Ala.) and Matthew Brand (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable device is provided for splitting optical beams. The device includes an input port configured to receive an input beam including at least two primary wavelengths, a tunable splitter configured to separate the input beam into at least two beams via at least two routes co...