ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,611, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System, method, and computer program product for a configurable channelized broadband light source" was invented by Qingyu Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Oliver Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Haiji J. Yuan (Cupertino, Calif.), Yajun Wang (Naperville, Ill.), Michael J. L. Cahill (Melbourne, Australia), Ian Peter Mcclean (Wilmington, Del.) and Glenn D. Bartolini (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems may include a broadband light source device, which may include at least one processor programmed or configured to receive an electrical control signal for op...