ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,751, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Baraja Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Optical beam director" was invented by Wenjian Yang (North Ryde, Australia) and Fernando Diaz (North Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a chip-based optical beam director, the beam director including: an input to receive light of a range of different wavelengths, including a light of a first wavelength channel and a light of a second wavelength channel, different to the first wavelength channel; an output to emit directed light from the optical beam director; a dielectric layer on an insulator; and at least one set of mul...