ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,490, issued on June 17, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Media adaptor for multimode waveguide interconnects" was invented by Kihong Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Jeremy Buan (San Jose, Calif.) and Yutaka Iwasaki (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations described herein involve a media adaptor configured to provide electrical/optical and optical/electrical conversion for a multi-mode waveguide (MMWG) interconnect, the media adaptor involving one or more ball grid arrays; and a tail-cut fiber array block (tcFAB) connected to a first array of photodiodes and a second array of laser ...