ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,659, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PicoJool Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Electrical to optical converter module" was invented by Albert T Yuen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Paul K Rosenberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical to optical converter module has one or more fiber pigtailed or fiber connectorized electrical to optical converters; and a substrate configured to carry signals at data rates at or above 100 Gb/s. The substrate connects to the one or more fiber pigtailed or fiber connectorized electrical to optical converters, to an electrical socket that provides signals at data rates at or above 100...