ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,337, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PsiQuantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Low loss optical interposer" was invented by Gabriel Joel Mendoza (Mountain View, Calif.), Khanh Tran (Milpitas, Calif.), Wenguang Li (Milpitas, Calif.), Vimal Kamineni (Fremont, Calif.) and Mark Thompson (Chester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical interposer can be formed from multiple wafers, including a photonic integrated circuit wafer and an interposer wafer. The photonic integrated circuit wafer can be bonded to a rigid carrier structure, and material near waveguides can be removed such that the waveguides can be coupled to wavegu...