US Patent Issued to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS on July 15 for "Optical device and optical communication device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,407, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical device and optical communication device" was invented by Masaki Sugiyama (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes an optical waveguide, a buffer layer that is layered on the optical waveguide, and an electrode that is arranged on a surface of the buffer layer that is layered in a part near the optical waveguide and that applies an electric signal to the optical waveguide. The optical device further includes a slit that is formed in the buffer layer, that extends from the surface of the buffer layer to ...