ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,045, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrated CMOS photonic and electronic WDM communication system using optical frequency comb generators" was invented by Matthew Sysak (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Brandon Buscaino (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical data communication system includes an optical power supply and an electro-optical chip. The optical power supply includes a laser that generates laser light at a single wavelength. A comb generator receives the light at the single wavelength and generates multiple wavelengths of continuous wave light from laser light at t...