ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,649, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Optical device having a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with improved linearity" was invented by Yuan Yuan (Milpitas, Calif.), Stanley Cheung (Milpitas, Calif.), Yiwei Peng (Milpitas, Calif.), Zhihong Huang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Marco Fiorentino (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example optical devices having a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with improved linearity are presented. An example optical device may include an MZI and a microring resonator (MRR) optically coupled to any one of a first optical waveguide arm or a ...