ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,273, issued on July 1, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Circuit for multi-path interference mitigation in an optical communication system" was invented by Benjamin P. Smith (Ottawa), Jamal Riani (Fremont, Calif.), Sudeep Bhoja (San Jose, Calif.), Arash Farhoodfar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vipul Bhatt (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical receiver includes an error generator, a multipath interference estimator, and a combiner. The error generator is configured to receive an input comprising a received optical signal, to estimate a modulation level of samples of the received optical signal, and t...