ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,114, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Waveguide network" was invented by Douglas James Kelly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benn Charles Thomsen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dushyanth Narayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andreas Georgiou (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimode optical waveguide network comprises a parent waveguide and a plurality of child waveguides. Each waveguide is a multimode optical waveguide having a first surface region, multiple second surface regions, and at least one gu...