US Patent Issued to Rockley Photonics, University of Southampton on July 1 for "Optical modulator" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,967, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain) and University of Southampton (Southampton, Great Britain).

"Optical modulator" was invented by Adam Scofield (Los Angeles), Aaron John Zilkie (Pasadena, Calif.), Guomin Yu (Glendora, Calif.), Thomas Pierre Schrans (Temple City, Calif.), David John Thomson (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Weiwei Zhang (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical modulator. The optical modulator comprising: a micro-ring resonator; and a bus waveguide, including an input waveguide region, an output waveguide region, and a coupling waveguide r...