US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 7 for "Hitless optical power monitor" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,338, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Hitless optical power monitor" was invented by Geza Kurczveil (Goleta, Calif.) and Raymond G. Beausoleil (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect can provide a method for fabricating a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with an embedded optical power monitor. The method can include creating a photomask based on a design of the PIC, the photomask comprising a pattern defining an optical waveguide for embedding the optical power monitor. Creating the photomask can include introducing a predetermined level of roughness along at lea...