ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,703, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and Toyohashi University of Technology (Aichi, Japan).

"Isolator and isolator manufacturing method" was invented by Taichi Goto (Sendai, Japan), Tomoya Sugita (Machida, Japan), Yasuyuki Tamba (Hirakata, Japan) and Hiroaki Inoue (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolator includes a substrate, a waveguide and an electronic circuit disposed above the substrate, and a non-reciprocal member disposed above the waveguide and the electronic circuit. The non-reciprocal member includes a first portion in contact with the waveguide and a second portion dispose...