ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,312, issued on April 1, was assigned to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Temporal resolution and fidelity enhancement of arbitrary waveforms" was invented by Ryan D. Muir (Livermore, Calif.), Vincent J. Hernandez (Brisbane, Calif.), Brandon W. Buckley (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Daniel E. Mittelberger (Livermore, Calif.) and John E. Heebner (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, comprising: Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) numbered MZM #1 to MZM #n that exhibit nonlinearity between an input electrical domain signal and an output optical domain signal; a waveform source for applying a f...