ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,716, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Inc..

"Optical transmitter" was invented by Satoshi Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan), Masanobu Kawamura (Yokohama, Japan), Kazushige Oki (Yokohama, Japan), Kuniyuki Ishii (Yokohama, Japan), Fumihiro Nakajima (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazunobu Kobayashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmitter according to one embodiment includes: a plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of light receiving elements that monitor output lights from the respective plurality of light emitting elements; a housing that m...