US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Magneto-optical Kerr effect interconnects for photonic packaging" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,722, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Magneto-optical Kerr effect interconnects for photonic packaging" was invented by Hiroki Tanaka (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kristof Darmawikarta (Chandler, Ariz.), Brandon Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.), Robert May (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sri Ranga Sai Boyapati (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical package comprising an optical die that is electrically coupled to a package substrate, and an optical interconnect adjacent the optical die. The optical interconnect comprises a first polarizing filter adjacent to a first lens, a second polarizing filter adjacen...