ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,314, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Modular assembly for opto-electronic systems" was invented by Po Dong (Cupertino, Calif.), Juthika Basak (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiashu Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular assembly for opto-electronic systems has a substrate on which various photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips and electronic integrated circuit (EIC) chips are mounted. One or more waveguide (WG) chips mounted on the substrate align the optical communication between the PIC chips and fiber blocks for optical fibers. Preconfigured electrical connections in the ...