ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,823, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-wavelength distributed feedback laser" was invented by Ranjeet Kumar (Milpitas, Calif.), Haisheng Rong (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jie Sun (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a distributed feedback laser includes a laser comprising a waveguide, the waveguide having a variable width from a first end to a second end, the laser to generate optical energy of a plurality of lasing wavelengths. Other embodiments are described and claimed."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/337,479.

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