US Patent Issued to IHP GMBH-INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS /LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIK on Dec. 16 for "Photonic precision delay component for high dynamic delay range" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,730, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IHP GMBH-INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS /LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIK (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Photonic precision delay component for high dynamic delay range" was invented by Gerhard Kahmen (Frankfurt, Germany) and Lars Zimmermann (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic-photonic integrated precision delay-control component comprises a coarse-delay switching unit that is configured to assume one of a plurality of selectable switching states and to feed, in a given one of the switching states, an optical input signal forward to at leas...