ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,576, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Thermal-efficient ring-based coarse wavelength division multiplexing optical link" was invented by Liron Gantz (Haifa, Israel), Shai Cohen (Haifa, Israel), Dor Oz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Gabbay (Yokneam, Israel) and Idan Yokev (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a unit cell of a ring modulator of a coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) optical link. The unit cell includes a ring resonator including a ring waveguide configured to receive, via a first bus waveguide, an optical signal, and modulate the optical signal ...