US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on April 22 for "Chip-to-chip optical interconnection using high refractive index couplers" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,190, issued on April 22, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Chip-to-chip optical interconnection using high refractive index couplers" was invented by Thomas L. Koch (Tucson, Ariz.), Erfan M. Fard (Tucson, Ariz.), Roland Himmelhuber (Tucson, Ariz.), Linan Jiang (Tucson, Ariz.), Stanley K. H. Pau (Tucson, Ariz.), Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kyungjo Kim (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing optical coupling between spatially separated first and second planar waveguides includes arranging an optical interconnect on the first planar ...