ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,959, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Optical waveguide connecting device" was invented by Vinay Vashishtha (Chandler, Ariz.), Mudit Bhargava (Austin, Texas), Brian Tracy Cline (Austin, Texas), Saurabh Pijuskumar Sinha (San Antonio) and Gregory Munson Yeric (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices and techniques for facilitating transmission of light signals between optical waveguides formed on integrated circuit (IC) devices. In an implementation, one or more first waveguides may be formed in a structure such that at least a portion of the one or more first waveguide...