US Patent Issued to NTT RESEARCH, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Aug. 12 for "Ultra-broadband mid-infrared generation in dispersion-engineered thin-film lithium niobate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,237, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NTT RESEARCH INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Ultra-broadband mid-infrared generation in dispersion-engineered thin-film lithium niobate" was invented by Jatadhari Mishra (Stanford, Calif.), Marc Jankowski (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Y. Hwang (Stanford, Calif.), Hubert S. Stokowski (Stanford, Calif.), Timothy P. McKenna (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amir H Safavi-Naeini (Stanford, Calif.) and Martin M. Fejer (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a device for generating mid-infrared radiatio...