US Patent Issued to Ronald Smith on Oct. 20 for "Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical interconnect" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,458, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ronald Smith (Rockville, Md.).

"Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical interconnect" was invented by Ronald H Smith (Catonsville, Md.), William Robert Allen Ziegler (Catonsville, Md.), Stephen Roberson (Catonsville, Md.), James Sutherland (Catonsville, Md.), Kelli Boyer (Catonsville, Md.) and Christian Lawson (Catonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical interconnect system may comprise a frequency comb generator configured to generate multiple optical wavelengths. A demultiplexing optical spectrometer may separate the multiple optical...