ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,805, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical communication system and method of signal transmission" was invented by You-Cheng Lu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ming Yang Jung (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Tai-Chun Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication system and a method of signal transmission are provided. The optical communication system includes an optical fiber, a transmission module, and a reception module. The transmission module includes a first opti...