US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Focal plane optical conditioning for integrated photonics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,790, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Focal plane optical conditioning for integrated photonics" was invented by Andrew J. Sutton (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Robert S. Upton (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device (20A, 20B, 100, 200, 800) includes a first array of emitters (28A, 28B) disposed on a semiconductor substrate (218) and configured to emit respective beams of optical radiation. A second array (36A, 36B, 224, 808) of micro-optics (34A, 34B, 226, 802) is positioned in alignment with the respective beams of the optical emitters and arranged to condition phases of t...