ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,100, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical device and optical modulator" was invented by Kenji Nagase (Hong Kong), Hiroshi Take (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 device and an optical modulator, the optical device includes an optical waveguide, at an surface of plate-like or film-like electro-optic material forming the optical waveguide, 3 locations are selected in the extension direction of the optical waveguide, and 2 locations are selected in the width direction of the optical waveguide in a range of a region of 0.1...