US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), ETH ZURICH, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on Sept. 30 for "On-chip terahertz thin-film devices" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,637, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland), ETH ZURICH (Zurich) and PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"On-chip terahertz thin-film devices" was invented by Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus (Echichens, Switzerland), Marko Loncar (Belmont, Mass.), Jerome Faist (Zurich), Alessandro Tomasino (Renens, Switzerland), Amirhassan Shams-Ansari (Arlington, Mass.), Alexa Herter (Zurich) and Yazan Lampert Almahmoud (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terahertz device for detecting or emitting or for both detecting and em...