ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,012, issued on May 27, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Multi-device wavelength selective switch" was invented by Jonathan Plumridge (Wilmington, Del.), Luke Stewart (Wilmington, Del.) and Glenn Baxter (Wilmington, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a wavelength selective switch (100), comprising an input array (102) of optical fibers. The array (102) comprises two or more columns of fibers that are spatially offset in one or both of a switching dimension or a dispersive dimension of the wavelength selective switch (100). Each column (102A, 102B) of fibers is adapted to project respective ...