US Patent Issued to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings on Aug. 19 for "Variable gain optical modulator with open collector driver amplifier and method of operation" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,130, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Variable gain optical modulator with open collector driver amplifier and method of operation" was invented by Nguyen Nguyen (Lowell, Mass.), Duy Nguyen (Lowell, Mass.), Trong Phan (Lowell, Mass.), Thanh Pham (Lowell, Mass.), Wayne Kennan (Lowell, Mass.) and Stefano D'Agostino (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed amplifier system comprising an impedance matching network configured to match an input impedance to an output impedance of the signal source, and a DC block configured to block DC components in the inp...