US Patent Issued to AAYUNA on Oct. 21 for "Passively-aligned fiber array to waveguide configuration" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,603, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AAYUNA INC. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Passively-aligned fiber array to waveguide configuration" was invented by Kalpendu Shastri (Orefield, Pa.), Anujit Shastri (Saratoga, Calif.), Soham Pathak (Allentown, Pa.), Bipin D. Dama (Bridgewater, N.J.), Alan Leonhartsberger (Kempton, Pa.), Rutvij Dave (Allentown, Pa.) and Rao Yelamarty (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passive alignment and connection between a fiber array and a plurality of optical waveguides terminating along an edge of a photonic IC (PIC) is provided by a controlled mating between alignment V-grooves formed in a fiber array s...