ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,588, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nanjing Guangzhiyuan Technology Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Optical structure, optical coupling method, and photonic integrated circuit chip" was invented by Yichen Shen (Nanjing, China), Huaiyu Meng (Nanjing, China), Zhan Su (Nanjing, China), Junjie Chen (Nanjing, China), Jianhua Wu (Nanjing, China), Yunpeng Zhu (Nanjing, China), Hui Chen (Nanjing, China), Zhiquan Xue (Nanjing, China) and Ronald Gagnon (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical structure, an optical coupling method, and a photonic integrated circuit chip. The optica...