ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,617, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT PADERBORN (Paderborn, Germany).
"Electro-optical mixer" was invented by Stephan Kruse (Paderborn, Germany) and Johann Christoph Scheytt (Dorsten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electro-optical mixer having an electrical output, the electro-optical mixer including: a photodiode for converting an incident optical signal, a first terminal, a second terminal, where a first voltage supply can be connected to the first terminal and a second voltage supply can be connected to the second terminal, or a first power supply can be connected to the first termin...