US Patent Issued on March 18 for "Photonic circuits with selectable number of input ports" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,716, issued on March 18.

"Photonic circuits with selectable number of input ports" was invented by Long Chen (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to an apparatus including a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including an optical network including V optical output channels and U optical input ports, wherein a selectable subset of the U optical input ports can be connected to L lasers, wherein L is less than or equal to U, and wherein the PIC is operable to output light on some or all of the V optical output channels in response to different number of active lasers connected to the U opt...