ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,832, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for pre-calculating and applying optimized phase patterns to LCoS switch panel of WSS module" was invented by Alan A. Fennema (San Jose, Calif.), Haijun Yuan (Dublin, Calif.), Wilfredo C. Nanita (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Oswald Correya (Melbourne, Australia), Jack R Kelly (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Thomas J. Schwartz (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Advanced hologram techniques pre-calculate holograms to be displayed on an LCoS switch panel of a wavelength selective switch (WSS) module. The holograms are generated offline and are then...