ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,895, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NKT PHOTONICS A/S (Birkerod, Denmark).

"Optical pulse burst formation apparatus and method" was invented by Michael Yarrow (Fareham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical pulse generator arranged to generate an initial sequence of optical pulses having an initial inter-pulse period; and an optical pulse burst formation apparatus including: an interleaving stage to receive an initial sequence of optical pulses having an initial inter-pulse period, including: an optical splitter to power split received optical pulses, thereby generating a first and second replica sequences of op...