US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Sept. 23 for "Integrated circuit spectrometer" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,302, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Integrated circuit spectrometer" was invented by Anmin Kong (Singapore), Shaonan Zheng (Singapore) and Lennon Yao Ting Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit spectrometer comprises a photonic circuit comprising: an optical input port for receiving light from a light source: and a filter array of filter elements, such as microring resonators, in optical communication with the optical input port. Each microring resonator is characterized by a different series of resonance wavelengths. If alternative filter el...