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Michael Vitic — 16 Patents

CICiena: 14 patents #65 of 1,406Top 5%
Keyano, CA: #60 of 1,768 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Michael Vitic has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 2020 and the most recent in November 2025. Michael Vitic ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Michael Vitic in Keyano, QC, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2020 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 32020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12481198 Providing drive signals for a differential drive modulator Maxime Jacques, Graham R. Brookes, Jean-Frédéric Gagné 2025-11-25
12461421 RF crossing in an optical modulator for equalization Alexandre Delisle-Simard, Graham R. Brookes 2025-11-04
12158639 Apparatus and method for driving an optical modulator with independent modulator arm bias Christopher Edgar Falt 2024-12-03 $40,692,000
12057518 Avalanche photodiodes with lower excess noise and lower bandwidth variation Alireza Samani, Sean Sebastian O'Keefe 2024-08-06 $18,609,000
12001116 Providing drive signals for a differential drive modulator Maxime Jacques, Jean-Frédéric Gagné 2024-06-04 $57,895,000
11768392 Optical modulator robust to fabrication errors through an RF electrical crossing Christine Latrasse, Alexandre Delisle-Simard, Michel Poulin, Ian Betty, Arash Khajooeizadeh 2023-09-26 $10,440,000
11740533 Providing a drive signal for optical modulator portions Michel Poulin, Alexandre Delisle-Simard 2023-08-29 $17,084,000
11650475 Apparatus and method for driving an optical modulator with independent modulator arm bias Christopher Edgar Falt, Alexandre Delisle-Simard, Michel Poulin 2023-05-16 $16,619,000
11460724 Optical modulator robust to fabrication errors through an RF electrical crossing Christine Latrasse, Alexandre Delisle-Simard, Michel Poulin, Ian Betty, Arash Khajooeizadeh 2022-10-04 $6,331,000
11404596 Balancing a pair of avalanche photodiodes in a coherent receiver Tom Luk, Christopher Edgar Falt 2022-08-02 $52,767,000
11391627 Managing stray light in integrated photonics devices Sean Sebastian O'Keefe, Christine Latrasse 2022-07-19 $24,270,000
10911011 Coherent optical modem with method to discover and control an amplifier's automatic gain control (AGC) loop bandwidth Tom Luk, Ron Hartman 2021-02-02 $35,903,000
10908474 Optical modulator and optical modulator driver devices and methods utilizing independent arm bias to mitigate fabrication errors Alexandre Delisle-Simard, Michel Poulin 2021-02-02 $35,903,000
10830638 Photodetector circuit with improved saturation current and integrated optical filtering François Pelletier, Michel Poulin, Yves Painchaud, Christine Latrasse, Alexandre Delisle-Simard 2020-11-10 $15,900,000
10811279 Flip-chip high speed components with underfill François Pelletier 2020-10-20 $30,929,000
10658994 Method to discover and control an amplifier's automatic gain control (AGC) loop bandwidth Tom Luk, Ron Hartman 2020-05-19 $82,708,000