US Patent Issued to Molex on Oct. 28 for "Variable dual-directional thermal compensator for arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) modules" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,414, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Variable dual-directional thermal compensator for arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) modules" was invented by Shuyu Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Glenn Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Taizhong Huang (Zhuhai, China), Senming Gong (Zhuhai, China) and Mike C. Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal compensator, for use in connection with arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) modules which are, in turn, utilized in conjunction with wavelength multiplexing and de-multiplexing within optical networks, is disclosed. The thermal compensator comprises a bow-shaped frame membe...