ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,909, issued on March 17, was assigned to OPTICIS Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Optical link supporting display port" was invented by Dong Pyeong Yang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Doo Soo Ha (Songpa-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical link. The optical link supports duplex communication of an auxiliary channel for transmitting, between a display source and a display sink, extended display configuration data (EDID) that is related to rendering of the display sink or display port configuration data (DPCD) related to setting of a main link. The optical link is capable of preventing a data tran...