ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,108, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Faraday rotator interconnect as a through-via configuration in a patch architecture" was invented by Brandon C. Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.), Divya Pratap (Hillsboro, Ore.), Hiroki Tanaka (Chandler, Ariz.), Nitin Deshpande (Chandler, Ariz.), Omkar Karhade (Chandler, Ariz.), Robert Alan May (Chandler, Ariz.), Sri Ranga Sai Boyapati (Chandler, Ariz.), Srinivas V. Pietambaram (Chandler, Ariz.), Xiaoqian Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Sai Vadlamani (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Jeremy Ecton (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include optical syste...