US Patent Issued to Luminous Computing on Aug. 5 for "Photonic integrated circuit system and method of fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,543, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Luminous Computing Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuit system and method of fabrication" was invented by Lei Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas W. Baehr-Jones (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mitchell A. Nahmias (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) system, preferably including a substrate, one or more photonic connections, and a plurality of circuit blocks. The circuit blocks preferably include one or more waveguides that are optically coupled to the photonic connections, such as by transition features. A method of PIC fabrication, ...