ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,316, issued on July 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical device" was invented by Kazuki Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuhisa Inada (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a first waveguide extending in a first direction and a second waveguide connected to the first waveguide. The second waveguide includes a first mirror, a second mirror, and an optical waveguide layer. At least either the first waveguide or the second waveguide has one or more gratings in a part of a connection region in which the first mirror, the second mirror, and the first...