ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,523, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Compact optical splitter" was invented by Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli (San Jose, Calif.), Maria Anagnosti (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jason S. Pelc (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yu Miao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical splitters and system and methods utilizing optical splitters are disclosed. The optical splitter may include an input waveguide, a free propagation region, and a plurality output waveguides. The output waveguides are connected to the free propagation region at a corresponding plurality of output ports that are positioned along a non-circ...