ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,514, issued on July 22, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskekus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Method and apparatus for providing a voltage" was invented by Jaani Nissila (Espoo, Finland) and Antti Kemppinen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a voltage waveform includes providing an optical signal, which comprises one or more sequences of optical pulses, distributing the optical pulses via optical waveguides to a plurality of optical-to-electrical converter units, using the optical-to-electrical converter units to convert the optical pulses into electric driving current pulses, generating voltage puls...