ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,533, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
"Linearized optical digital-to-analog modulator" was invented by Yossef Ehrlichman (Nazareth Ilit, Israel), Ofer Amrani (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shlomo Ruschin (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system for converting digital data into a modulated optical signal, an electrically controllable device, including a modulator having one or more actuating electrodes, provides an analog-modulated optical signal that is modulated in response to output data bits of a digital-to-digital mapping. A digital-to-digital conversion provides...