ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,257, issued on Feb. 10.

"Linear-drive pluggable optics transceiver" was invented by Tongqing Wang (Newark, Calif.), Ming Ding (Bellevue, Wash.), Xiaolei Huang (Chengdu, China), Yu Tan (Chengdu, China) and Pengfei He (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of present invention provide a linear-drive pluggable optics (LPO) transceiver. The LPO transceiver includes a receiver path, which includes a receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) converting an input optical signal into an ingress electrical signal; and a linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA) with adjustable frequency transfer function (AFTF), the ingress electrica...