ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,099, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Polarization diverse receiver with delays" was invented by John Fini (Albany, Calif.), Anatol Khilo (Lexington, Mass.), Chen Sun (Berkeley, Calif.), Pavan Bhargava (Berkeley, Calif.) and Chandarasekaran Ramamurthy (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first portion of incoming light and a second portion of incoming light travel in opposite directions within a first optical waveguide. A ring resonator in-couples the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light from the first optical waveguide, such that the first portion...