ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,826, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuit to glass substrate alignment through integrated cylindrical lens and waveguide structure" was invented by Changhua Liu (Chandler, Ariz.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.), John Heck (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric J. Moret (Beaverton, Ore.), Tarek A. Ibrahim (Mesa, Ariz.), Zhichao Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Jeremy D Ecton (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprises a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including at least one waveguide, an emitting lens disposed on the PIC to emit light from the at least one ...