US Patent Issued to EFFECT Photonics on Nov. 4 for "Photonic integrated circuit, opto-electronic system and method" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,303, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to EFFECT Photonics B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Photonic integrated circuit, opto-electronic system and method" was invented by Sian Chong Jeffrey Lee (Kempen, Germany), Tim Koene (Utrecht, Netherlands), Tsjerk Hans Hoekstra (Heeze, Netherlands), Niall Patrick Kelly (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Emil Kleijn (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PIC including a plurality of optically interconnectable functional photonic blocks and a reconfigurable optical connection arrangement having a plurality of semiconductor-based optical waveguides and a plurality of controllable opti...