US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 4 for "Heating of thermo-optic device" (California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,396, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Heating of thermo-optic device" was invented by Meer Nazmus Sakib (Berkeley, Calif.), Saeed Fathololoumi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Harel Frish (Albuquerque, N.M.), John Heck (Berkeley, Calif.), Eddie Bononcini (Corrales, N.M.), Reece Defrees (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Stanley J. Dobek (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Aliasghar Eftekhar (Fremont, Calif.), Walter Garay (Plano, Texas), Lingtao Liu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Wei Qian (Walnut, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: forming a base layer on a substrate; forming a waveguide assembly on the base layer, where the...