US Patent Issued to Lightwave Logic on Jan. 27 for "Active region-less modulator and method" (California, Colorado, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,700, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lightwave Logic Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

"Active region-less modulator and method" was invented by Michael Lebby (San Francisco), Yasufumi Enami (Tucson, Ariz.) and Zhiming Liu (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer modulator includes a first cladding layer, a passive core region with a surface abutting a surface of the first cladding layer, the passive core region extending to define an optical input and an optical output for the modulator, a shaped electro-optic polymer active component with a surface abutting a surface of a central portion of the passive core region, the s...