ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,981, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical data communication system and associated method" was invented by Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical data communication system includes a plurality of resonator structures and a laser array that includes a plurality of lasers optically connected to the plurality of resonator structures. Each resonator structure has a respective free spectral wavelength range and a respective resonance wavelength. A maximum difference in resonance wavelength between any two resonator structures in the plurality of resonator stru...