US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on June 3 for "Electro-optic polymer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,673, issued on June 3, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Electro-optic polymer" was invented by Akira Otomo (Tokyo), Isao Aoki (Tokyo), Toshiki Yamada (Tokyo) and Chiyumi Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electro-optic polymer (EO polymer) comprising an electro-optic molecule (EO molecule) and a base polymer. The EO polymer of the present invention has good performance over the entire optical communication wavelength range and therefore can preferably be used for the production of optical modulators, optical switches, optical transceiv...