ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,978, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FONEX DATA SYSTEMS INC. (Saint Laurent, Canada).

"External cavity laser with multiple materials micro-ring reflectors" was invented by Reza Maram (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Mohsen Rezaei (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Ali Bayat (Saint-Laurent, Canada), MohammadHossein Motavas (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Shahab Mahmoudi (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Weijia Li (Montreal, Canada), David V. Plant (Montreal, Canada) and Pasquale Ricciardi (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an external cavity laser, including: a photonic integrated platform including a gain chip providing a gain ...