US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 11 for "Periscope optical assembly with inserted components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,088, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Periscope optical assembly with inserted components" was invented by Ashley J.M. Erickson (Danville, Calif.) and Matthew J. Traverso (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Periscope assemblies are provided which have a light path that travels in a first plane along the first waveguide, a second plane along the second waveguide that is parallel to the first plane, and along a third plane along the third waveguide that intersects the first plane and the second plane. In some examples the periscope assembly includes first and second carriers com...