ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,031, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Facet coupling fanout device" was invented by Long Chen (Marlboro, N.J.) and John Heanue (Manchester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a facet coupling fanout device including a body, a first optical coupling side, and a second optical coupling side. The body defines a plurality of multi-channel waveguides therein. The first optical coupling side optically couples the plurality of multi-channel waveguides to a plurality of waveguide cores of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The a second optical coupling side optically couples the plu...