US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Oct. 7 for "Photonics chip structures including a light source and an edge coupler" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,334, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Photonics chip structures including a light source and an edge coupler" was invented by Arpan Dasgupta (Beacon, N.Y.), Zahidur Chowdhury (New Windsor, N.Y.), Takako Hirokawa (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Vaishnavi Karra (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and Norman Robson (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures including a light source and an edge coupler, and methods of forming and using such structures. The structure comprises a semiconductor substrate and a back-end-of-line stack on the semiconductor substrate. The back-end-of-line stack includes a f...