US Patent Issued to Formerica Optoelectronics on Jan. 13 for "Optical switch module and optical by-pass apparatus" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,820, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Formerica Optoelectronics Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Optical switch module and optical by-pass apparatus" was invented by Hung-Fu Yeh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ching-Jen Wen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ping-Fang Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical switch module includes a housing, at least two first collimators, at least two second collimators, a relay, and plural prisms. The housing has an accommodating space, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall. The first collimators are located on the first sidewall. Each of the first collimators connects even num...