ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,496, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Wormhole backplane ultrahigh density optical routing system" was invented by Ralph Jensen (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michael T. Crocker (Portland, Ore.), Aaron Gorius (Upton, Mass.) and Kevin P. Ma (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods employing wormhole structures supporting ultra-high density optical routing systems. Microstructures comprising wormhole tunnels are formed in optical looms with wormhole openings arranged in patterns, such as a high-density XY grid. Optical fibers are inserted into respective wormhole tunnels, and sleev...