ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,835, issued on July 15, was assigned to O-NET (USA) Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus of automatic bias control for intensity modulated silicon modulator" was invented by Yangjing Wen (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongbing Lei (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to provide automatic bias control for intensity modulated silicon modulator by providing a laser light to a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) and splitting the laser light into a first arm and a second arm, wherein light in the first arm experiences a phase section for data modulation and light in the second arm receives heat fo...