US Patent Issued to KYOCERA, Toyohashi University of Technology on Feb. 3 for "Isolator and isolator manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,053, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and Toyohashi University of Technology (Aichi, Japan).

"Isolator and isolator manufacturing method" was invented by Tomoya Sugita (Machida, Japan) and Taichi Goto (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolator includes a substrate having a substrate surface, a waveguide, a groove, a mask, and a non-reciprocal member. The waveguide is disposed above the substrate surface and has a first surface facing the substrate surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side face connecting the first surface to the second surface. The groove includes a b...