ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,029, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sentea NV (Ghent, Belgium).
"Depolarization" was invented by Ronny Bockstaele (Ghent, Belgium), Karsten Verhaegen (Ghent, Belgium) and Thijs Spuesens (Ghent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a depolarizer circuit having an input waveguide configured to receive light from a light source; a splitter configured to provide light from the input waveguide in a first and second polarization states; a first rotator configured to rotate the light from the first polarization state to the second polarization state; a first delay line configured to delay the light in the second polariz...