ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,500, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiple traveling waveguides to facilitate optical modulation" was invented by Jin Hong (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jianying Zhou (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques directed to a multiple traveling waveguide structure to synthesize EO frequency responses used for optical modulation. Multiple traveling waveguide devices may include a plurality of traveling waveguides, each with different characteristics resulting in a different EO response within a target frequency rang...