US Patent Issued to Fluxus on Sept. 9 for "Alignment of photonic system components using a reference surface" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,291, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fluxus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Alignment of photonic system components using a reference surface" was invented by Joshua Wayne Parks (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for aligning components of photonic systems are provided. An optical component for integration into and optical coupling within a photonic system is created by separating the component from a substrate to form a precisely defined surface on the optical component, the surface being precisely spaced from an optical feature of the component to be optically coupled within the photonic system. The pr...