ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,422, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nubis Communications Inc. (New Providence, N.J.).

"Communication systems having co-packaged optical modules" was invented by Peter James Pupalaikis (Ramsey, N.J.), Ron Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brett Michael Dunn Sawyer (Pasadena, Calif.), Clinton Randy Giles (Watchung, N.J.) and Peter Johannes Winzer (Aberdeen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a housing that has a front panel; a substrate that is positioned at a distance from the front panel, in which a data processor is mounted on the substrate; and a pluggable module. The pluggable module includes a co-packaged optical ...