US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Structure for reflective loopback of low-confinement waveguides" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,283, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Structure for reflective loopback of low-confinement waveguides" 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 a reflective loopback structure comprising a reflector, a first waveguide defining an optical input, a second waveguide defining an optical output; and a merged waveguide structure defining a front surface and a back surface and a first axis. In some embodiments, the reflector disposed at a back surface, the first axis normal to the front surface and the back surface, and the fi...