ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,297, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHANGHAI XIZHI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Optical modulators and photonic integrated systems" was invented by Huaiyu Meng (Shanghai), Yichen Shen (Shanghai), Yanfei Bai (Shanghai), Zhan Su (Shanghai), Cheng-Kuan Lu (Shanghai) and Yelong Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of photonic integrated circuits and provides an optical modulator and a photonic integrated system, which can suppress phase deviation caused by carrier diffusion. The optical modulator includes at least one phase shifter including a waveguide channel for transmitting optical sig...