ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,102, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shandong, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Weiwei Liu (Shandong, China), Qian Shao (Shandong, China), Liu Yang (Shandong, China) and Tao Wu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an optical module including a circuit board and a light-emitting assembly. In the light-emitting assembly, a wavelength tuning mechanism is formed of a semiconductor optical amplification chip, a silicon optical chip and a semiconductor refrigerator. The semiconductor optical amplification chip may provide a plurality ...