ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,638, issued on July 22, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driver circuit for an addressable array of optical emitters" was invented by Mikhail Dolganov (Gilroy, Calif.), Lijun Zhu (Dublin, Calif.), Hao Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Sean Burns (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a driver circuit may include a source to provide an electrical input and an array of optical emitters arranged in one or more rows and one or more columns. The array of optical emitters may include an optical emitter associated with a row of the one or more rows and a column of the one or more c...