ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,672, issued on July 22, was assigned to IMEC vzw (Leuven, Belgium).
"Optical system and corresponding optical method" was invented by Jiwon Lee (Herent, Belgium), Xavier Rottenberg (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Murali Jayapala (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an optical system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the optical system includes an optical waveguide, and at least two coupling means forming at least one confocal point being located within the optical waveguide, where a first coupling means of the at least two coupling means has a first focal length, and a second coupling means of the at least two ...