ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,328, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lucidean Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Polarization-multiplexed self-homodyne analog coherent (PM-SH-ACD) architecture for optical communication links" was invented by Aaron Maharry (Goleta, Calif.), Hector Adolfo Andrade Paez (Goleta, Calif.), Clint Lee Schow (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Larry Allen Coldren (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and James Franklin Buckwalter (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarization-multiplexed self-homodyne analog coherent (PM-SH-ACD) architecture for optical communication links has a receiver section that polarization un-rotates a signal from a fiber opti...