US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Sept. 30 for "Integrated optical structure for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,649, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Integrated optical structure for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing" was invented by Jeonghwan Song (Heverlee, Belgium) and Marcus Dahlem (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated optical structure for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing an optical signal comprises a main waveguide having two parallel side surfaces, a first waveguide which meets the main waveguide at a first region on one of the two side surfaces, and a plurality of second waveguides which meet the main waveguide at a second region on one of the two side surfaces. The second reg...