ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,281, issued on May 27, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Reception circuit for optical communication" was invented by Yoshiyuki Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Keiji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception circuit includes an input terminal configured to receive an input current; a voltage signal circuit being configured to convert a current signal into a voltage signal; a reference voltage circuit configured to generate a reference voltage in accordance with a first feedback current; a differential amplifier circuit configured to generate a differential signal in accordance with a...