ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,937, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Photonic fabric chip device" was invented by Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.), Richard J. Pimpinella (Prairieville, La.), Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.), Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.), Ronald A. Nordin (Naperville, Ill.) and Robert A. Reid (Battle Ground, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses having a plurality of optical duplex and parallel connector adapters, such as MPO connectors and LC adapters, where some adapters connect to network equipment in a network and others to servers or processing units such as GPUs, incorporate internal photonic cir...