US Patent Issued to Quintessent on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for distributing optical signals using a photonic integrated circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,366, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Quintessent Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for distributing optical signals using a photonic integrated circuit" was invented by Brian Koch (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Alan Liu (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Daniel Knight Sparacin (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to light-distribution systems on photonic integrated circuits (PIC) that split and amplify a light signal received from at least one remotely located laser into a plurality of amplified light signals, where amplification is provided by an integrated semiconductor optical ampli...