ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,427, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).

"Photonic communication platform and related architectures, systems and methods" was invented by Carlos Dorta-Quinones (Medford, Mass.), Mykhailo Tymchenko (Melrose, Mass.), Anthony Kopa (Somerville, Mass.), Michael Gould (La Honda, Calif.), Bradford Turcott (Georgetown, Texas), Robert Turner (Georgetown, Texas), Reza Baghdadi (Arlington, Mass.), Shashank Gupta (Newton, Mass.), Ajay Joshi (Lexington, Mass.), Nicholas C. Harris (Boston) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic interposers that enable low-power, high-bandwidth inter-chip (e.g....