ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,180, issued on March 18, was assigned to OAM Photonics LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Device and method for routing optical signals" was invented by Kam Wai Clifford Chan (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Chung Ki Wong (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an optical routing circuit (ORC) which may be used to route an input optical signal to one or more optical output channels of the ORC. The ORC comprises a network of nodes for carrying out the task of optical signal routing. The nodes may be controlled by a node control system through electrical node control channels. The ORC may simplify the electric...