ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,512, issued on July 28, was assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Multi-parallel and serial optical digital to analog conversion" was invented by Moshe Nazarathy (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical digital to analog converter (oDAC) that may include (a) multiple optical paths that are parallel to each other; (b) a combiner, (c) a splitter that is configured to receive an optical signal at a splitter input and split the optical signal between multiple splitter outputs to provide multiple path input signals to the multiple optical paths. The multiple optical paths are configu...