ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,312, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Evanescent couplers and related methods" was invented by Tymon Barwicz (Holmdel, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In part, the disclosure relates to an optical coupler. The optical coupler may include two ridge waveguides that include a first waveguide and a second waveguide. One or more segments of the two waveguides extend over a coupling length or other distance. One or more sections of each ridge waveguide is at least partially defined by a set of cross-sectional profiles, a plurality of sections of each ridge waveguide have a width that tapers ...