ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,564, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OPTONICS Co. LTD. (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Integrated optical system-based optical current sensor system" was invented by Seong-Min Ju (Gwangju, South Korea) and Young-Woo Lee (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an integrated optical system-based optical current sensor system comprising a light source generating reference light for current or magnetic field sensing, a polarizer for polarizing the reference light, a phase modulator for phase-modulating the polarized light into a predetermined reference signal, and a Faraday rotation reflector for reflecting the lig...