ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,702, issued on July 29, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Optical filter with optical channel" was invented by William D. Houck (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical filter includes a plurality of optical channels that each have a Fano resonance characteristic. A first optical channel, of the plurality of optical channels, is configured to pass a first portion of a first set of light beams (that are associated with a first wavelength range) and reflect a second portion of the first set of light beams when the first set of light beams falls incident on a particular surface of the first op...