ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,295, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FOCI FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pluggable optical packing structure" was invented by Ting-Ta Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chieh-Yu Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Yan Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Kuo Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pluggable optical packaging structure is provided, including: a substrate, a carrier ring, at least one optical connection assembly and a cover plate; the substrate includes at least one electronic integrated circuit (EIC) and at least one photonic integrated circuit (PIC); the carrier ring is locat...