US Patent Issued to TDK on April 8 for "Optical modulator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,094, issued on April 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical modulator" was invented by Hiroshi Take (Hong Kong), Kenji Nagase (Hong Kong), Anthony Reymund Melad Binarao (Hong Kong) and Cheng Bu Heng (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical modulators is disclosed. The optical modulator includes a substrate, an optical waveguide formed on the substrate, a signal electrode formed on the optical waveguide via a first buffer layer and applying a modulation signal to the optical waveguide, and a bias electrode formed on the optical waveguide via a second buffer layer and applying a DC bias to the optical waveguide, the...