US Patent Issued to Hilight Semiconductor on Dec. 16 for "Opto-electronic assemblies" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,529, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hilight Semiconductor Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Opto-electronic assemblies" was invented by Rudolf Van Ettinger (Southampton, Great Britain), Patrick Richard (Southampton, Great Britain), Richard Horn (Southampton, Great Britain) and William Redman-White (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly of electronic components for reception of data using an optical fibre wherein said assembly comprises: a photodiode; a first amplifier coupled to said photodiode; a second amplifier, whose electrical behaviour is substantially identical to an electrical behaviour of said first ...