ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,564, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-channel electro-optic receiver with polarization diversity and timing-skew management" was invented by Pavan Bhargava (Berkeley, Calif.), Derek Van Orden (San Francisco), Mark Wade (Berkeley, Calif.), John Fini (Oakland, Calif.), Chen Sun (Berkeley, Calif.), Milos Popovic (San Francisco) and Anatol Khilo (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic receiver includes a polarization splitter and rotator (PSR) that directs incoming light having a first polarization through a first end of an optical waveguide, and that rotates incoming lig...