US Patent Issued to HyperLight on Jan. 20 for "Compact lithium niobate photonic devices having improved performance" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,920, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HyperLight Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compact lithium niobate photonic devices having improved performance" was invented by Christian Reimer (Wellesley, Mass.), Prashanta Kharel (Cambridge, Mass.), Mian Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Kevin Luke (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lingyan He (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device is described. The optical device includes a substrate, an optical channel, a photodiode and an optical path that couples the channel to the photo diode. The optical path has an optical path length that is at least one fourth of the optical channel length."

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