US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 9 for "Method and device for fast, passive alignment in photonics assembly" (Arizona, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,151, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and device for fast, passive alignment in photonics assembly" was invented by Vineeth Abraham (Phoenix), Wesley Morgan (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Eric Moret (Beaverton, Ore.), Paul Diglio (Gaston, Ore.) and Srikant Nekkanty (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method including providing a die including a cavity therein, wherein the die further may include a die fiducial on a top surface. The method further includes placing a lens structure in the cavity of the die, wherein the lens structure may include a lens fid...