ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,971, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine" was invented by Hanke Feng (Hong Kong), Cheng Wang (Hong Kong), Tong Ge (Hong Kong), Xiaoqing Guo (Hong Kong) and Yixuan Yuan (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated MWP processing engine based on a thin-film lithium niobate (LN) platform capable of performing computation tasks of analog signals up to 92G samples per second is provided. By integrating a high-speed electro-optic modulation block and a multi-purpose low-loss signal processing section on the same chip fabrica...