ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,560, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical coherent transmitter on a silicon chip" was invented by Aliasghar Eftekhar (San Jose, Calif.), Duanni Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Meer Nazmus Sakib (Berkeley, Calif.), Haisheng Rong (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ansheng Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Peicheng Liao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hao Li (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques related to fully integrated optical coherent modulators on a silicon chip. These coherent modulators may be used to enable transmitters, recei...