US Patent Issued to Ayar Labs on Jan. 27 for "Optical communication system with a simplified remote optical power supply" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,603, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical communication system with a simplified remote optical power supply" was invented by Manan Raval (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chen Li (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optical chip includes a plurality of transmit macros, each of which includes an optical waveguide and a plurality of ring resonators positioned along the optical waveguide. An optical distribution network is implemented onboard the electro-optical chip. The optical distribution network has a plurality of optical inputs and a plural...