ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,902, issued on May 13, was assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Widely scalable, modular phase control of optical channels" was invented by Amjed Hallak (Elkton, Md.) and Matthew Gallion (Middletown, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of digital processors may be used to adjust phases in a plurality of phase modulators. The plurality of digital processors may receive a periodic pulse, or heartbeat signal, from a synchronization controller in order to control the digital processors. The synchronization controller may output an additional signal used to determine and to control the phase of the sig...