US Patent Issued to Ayar Labs on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for passively-aligned optical waveguide edge-coupling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,632, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for passively-aligned optical waveguide edge-coupling" was invented by Manan Raval (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chen Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chong Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first chip includes a first plurality of optical waveguides exposed at a facet of the first chip. A second chip includes a second plurality of optical waveguides exposed at a facet of the second chip. The second chip includes first and second spacers on opposite sides of the second plurality of optical waveg...