ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,424, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INNOLIGHT TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Silicon-based tunable filter, tunable laser and optical module" was invented by Defen Guo (Jiangsu, China), Xianyao Li (Jiangsu, China), Wenkai Tu (Jiangsu, China), Yuzhou Sun (Jiangsu, China) and Tianhua Lin (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a silicon-based tunable filter, laser and an optical module. The tunable laser comprises a semiconductor optical amplifier and a silicon photonic integrated chip, wherein a first coupler, a phase regulator and a tunable filter are provided on the silicon photonic integrated chip;...