ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,529, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Optical transmitter" was invented by Yi Ho Lee (Breinigsville, Pa.), Jeffrey Driscoll (San Jose, Calif.) and James Dongyoon Oh (Alhambra, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an optical transmitter. In some embodiments, the system includes: a first array of lasers; a first wavelength multiplexer, connected to the first array of lasers; a first coupler, connected to the wavelength multiplexer; and a first wavelength meter, connected to a first output of the first coupler."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2022, under Appl...