US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona on April 22 for "Photonic apparatus, methods, and applications" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,988, issued on April 22, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Photonic apparatus, methods, and applications" was invented by Tsu-Te Judith Su (Tucson, Ariz.) and Euan McLeod (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical microtoroid resonator including one or more nanoparticles attached to a surface of the resonator and capable of receiving an input signal from afar-field source (via free-space transmission) and outputting light propagating within the optical apparatus. A method for coupling light into and out of an optical resonator using a nanoparticle or nanopar...