US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 7 for "Technologies for chip-to-chip optical data transfer background" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,314, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for chip-to-chip optical data transfer background" was invented by Khaled Ahmed (San Jose, Calif.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.), Joshua B. Fryman (Corvallis, Ore.) and Sergey Yuryevich Shumarayev (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for chip-to-chip optical data transfer are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, microLEDs on a first chip are used to send data to microphotodiodes on a second chip. The beams from the microLEDs may be sent to the microphotodiodes using an optical bridge, microprisms, a channel t...