US Patent Issued to HyperLight on April 22 for "Thin film lithium niobate optical device having an engineered substrate for heterogeneous integration" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,214, issued on April 22, was assigned to HyperLight Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Thin film lithium niobate optical device having an engineered substrate for heterogeneous integration" was invented by Christian Reimer (Wellesley, Mass.) and Mian Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic device is described. The electro-optic device includes a substrate, an insulator on the substrate, an optical structure on the insulator and an electrode proximate to at least a portion of the optical structure. The substrate includes a trench region having a plurality of trenches therein. The trench region has an effective m...