ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,292, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Infrared modulator, optical device including the infrared modulator, and optical computing system including the optical device" was invented by Changyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an infrared modulator including a silicon substrate, a multiple buffer layer on the silicon substrate, the multiple buffer layer including indium phosphide (InP), a first type semiconductor layer on the multiple buffer layer, the first type semiconductor layer including InP, a ligh...