ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,684, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods for optically connecting processing devices and interfaces" was invented by Barak Gafni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Henning Lysdal (Roskilde, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including multiple processing devices such as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Each processing device is provided with light at one or more wavelengths. Each processing device outputs data, at the wavelength of the optical signal received, to one or more interfaces. Each interface outputs a multiplexed signal containing data from...