US Patent Issued to Quintessent on Sept. 23 for "Photonic systems comprising an asymmetric coupler and methods of fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,622, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Quintessent Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Photonic systems comprising an asymmetric coupler and methods of fabrication" was invented by Justin Colby Norman (Goleta, Calif.), Michael Davenport (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Michael Lawrence Belt (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward photonic elements comprising rib-waveguide-based ring resonators having high coupling efficiency between their bus and ring waveguides within the coupling region of the ring resonator, as well as operability over a wide spectral range. Embodiments disclosed herein employ a ...