ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,845, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical waveguide device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Yu Kurata (Musashino, Japan), Kenya Suzuki (Musashino, Japan) and Yoshie Morimoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical waveguide component of the present disclosure provides a configuration for optically connecting two optical waveguides composed of different materials with low loss. The first optical circuit including the core of a first material and a second optical circuit including a core of a second material are configured on a single substrate. The optical waveguide c...