ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,477, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce stress on lasers in optical transceivers" was invented by Aditi Mallik (Cupertino, Calif.), Pengyue Wen (San Jose, Calif.), Quan Tran (Fremont, Calif.), Wendai Wang (Dublin, Calif.) and Xiaozhong Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to reduce stress on lasers in optical transceivers are disclosed. An apparatus comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; and a first stiffener attached to the first side of the PCB; and a photonic i...