ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,542, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INNOLUME GMBH (Dortmund, Germany).
"Apparatus for optical demultiplexing" was invented by Alexey Gubenko (Dortmund, Germany), Aleksei Borodkin (Dortmund, Germany) and Vladislav Bougrov (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for optical demultiplexing comprising an optical splitter, at least two semiconductor optical elements (SOE's), and an optical gating line arrangement optically coupled to each of the at least two SOE's for altering optical transmission properties of the corresponding SOE."
The patent was filed on Oct. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/482,579.
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