ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,314, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Low distortion and phase noise optical single sideband generation system and related methods" was invented by James R Adleman (San Diego) and David Chao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical single sideband generation system comprising a RF signal generator generates a sawtooth drive voltage with a first frequency. A laser source provides the initial optical carrier with a second frequency that is modulated by a first phase modulator. The modulation shifts the optical carrier by the amount of th...