ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,149, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CYNTEC Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Flexible printed circuit board with embedded optical waveguide structure" was invented by Chia-Fu Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Yen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit board with embedded optical waveguide structure, including a photoelectric transmission unit, wherein the photoelectric transmission unit includes a flexible insulation layer, a first optoelectronic unit and a second optoelectronic unit embedded in the photoelectric transmission unit, at least one redistribution layer having at least one conductive s...