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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles L Goldsmith, Plano, TX (US);
Bradley M Kanack, DeSoto, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 14 ; 359152 ; 359173 ; 385-1 ; 385 24 ;
Abstract
An optical-electrical transmitter/receiver (300) with an optical detector (310) for reception which may be made transparent for optical transmission. This permits transmission (320, 330) and reception (310) devices to be positioned in series on a single integrated circuit.