US Patent Issued to HyperLight on Oct. 21 for "Dual height functional components in lithium niobate optical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,683, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HyperLight Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Dual height functional components in lithium niobate optical devices" was invented by Christian Reimer (Wellesley, Mass.), David J. Starling (Waltham, Mass.), Prashanta Kharel (Cambridge, 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 an electro-optic component implemented on an electro-optic material having a slab and a ridge portion. The electro-optic component includes a first portion of the slab and a portion of the ridge portion. The first portion of the sla...