ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,098, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FOCI FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical interposer for chip connection" was invented by Ting-Ta Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chieh-Yu Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Yan Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an optical interposer for chip connection including a first total internal reflective layer, a waveguide and a second total internal reflective layer. The optical interposer is disposed above a first photonic integrated circuit chip and a second photonic integrated circuit chip, coupling with the firs...