US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Nov. 4 for "Accelerated keying for an optical communication system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,728, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Accelerated keying for an optical communication system" was invented by Johan Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Paul Henricus Johannes Maria Van Voorthuisen (Sint Oedenrode, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a binary signaling scheme for use in a transmitter comprising a semiconductor radiation source where the driving current and thus also the radiation output level is modulated by switching the driving current on and off. However, the modulation of the driving current is adapted to not wait ...