US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 9 for "Reworkable zero-force insertion electrical optical package socket and method" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,296, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reworkable zero-force insertion electrical optical package socket and method" was invented by Eric J. M. Moret (Beaverton, Ore.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.), Karumbu Meyyappan (Portland, Ore.) and Paul J. Diglio (Gaston, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprises an electro-optical circuit package including at least photonic integrated circuit (PIC) having at least one light source and a package substrate; a printed circuit (PCB) including at least one optical connector to receive light from the at least one light source; and mult...