ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,097, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Optoelectronic device having attenuating lens block and source monitoring" was invented by Mengfei Zhang (Shanghai), Yichun Xie (Shanghai), Ranran Zhang (Shanghai), Cuiyan Shao (Shanghai), Yang Li (Shanghai), Wen Wu (Shanghai) and Hui Yang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device is used with an optical fiber for data transmission and has a transmitter mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) to emit light. A collimation lens on a lens block receives the light incident thereto. A microstructure on a reflective surface of the lens...