US Patent Issued to Phase Sensitive Innovations on July 1 for "Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) vertically tapered optical waveguide and method of forming the same" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,968, issued on July 1, was assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) vertically tapered optical waveguide and method of forming the same" was invented by Andrew Mercante (Newark, Del.), Peng Yao (Newark, Del.) and Dennis Prather (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) optical waveguide including a first region, a second region, and a third region, a substrate layer extending across the first region, the second region, and the third region, and a first cladding layer disposed on the substrate layer across the first region, the second regi...