US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 2 for "Integrated freeform optical couplers and fabrication methods thereof" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,421, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Integrated freeform optical couplers and fabrication methods thereof" was invented by Luigi Ranno (Cambridge, Mass.), Tian Gu (Fairfax, Va.) and Juejun Hu (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is related to optics and optical systems, particularly to photonic packaging, optical coupling, optical interconnects, micro-optics, and their fabrication. The present technology includes free-form micro-optical coupler architectures and systems with superb optical performance and a high-throughput method of fabricatin...