US Patent Issued to Intel on March 11 for "Photonic integrated circuit and light detection and ranging system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,174, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuit and light detection and ranging system" was invented by William Hayenga (Los Angeles), George Rakuljic (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Eduardo Temprana Giraldo (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit including a semiconductor substrate having integrate a semiconductor light source configured to emit coherent light of at least the first wavelength and the second wavelength, the semiconductor light source having a first factor; a waveguide structure optically coupled to the semiconductor light s...