US Patent Issued to Anello Photonics on May 13 for "Silicon nitride waveguide based integrated photonics front-end chip for optical gyroscope" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,136, issued on May 13, was assigned to Anello Photonics Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Silicon nitride waveguide based integrated photonics front-end chip for optical gyroscope" was invented by Mario Paniccia (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mike Horton (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated photonics optical gyroscope fabricated on a silicon nitride (SiN) waveguide platform comprises (SiN) waveguide-based optical components that constitute a front-end chip to launch light into and receive light from the rotation sensing element, that can be a fiber spool. The SiN waveguide-based components can be distributed betwee...