US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on July 15 for "Driver circuit for evaluation of an optical emitter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,537, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driver circuit for evaluation of an optical emitter" was invented by Mikhail Dolganov (Gilroy, Calif.), Lijun Zhu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sean Burns (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Yuanzhen Zhuang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit may include an optical emitter. The driver circuit may include a first switch that, in a closed state, is to cause charging of an inductive element, and when transitioning from the closed state to an open state is to cause discharging of the inductive element to charge a capacitive element. The driver...