ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,080, issued on March 25, was assigned to WAVESPLITTER TECHNOLOGIES INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"HDMI fiber-optic extender" was invented by Wen-Shuo Liao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jen-Hsiu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HDMI fiber-optic extender is for providing long-distance signal transmission between a signal transmitting device and a signal receiving device, and includes an HDMI optical transmitter and an HDMI optical receiver. The HDMI optical transmitter uses a tri-direction transmitter optical sub-assembly and a first tri-direction optical sub-assembly to convert HDMI signals (including three high-frequency...