US Patent Issued to Rockley Photonics on July 8 for "Photonic module and method of manufacture" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,003, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Photonic module and method of manufacture" was invented by Abu Thomas (Simi Valley, Calif.), Andrea Trita (Pasadena, Calif.), Yangyang Liu (Glendale, Calif.) and Andrew George Rickman (Marlborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic module, comprising a first waveguide; a second waveguide, disposed on an opposing side of the first waveguide to a substrate; and, a coupling section. One of the first waveguide and the second waveguide is formed of crystalline silicon. The other of the first waveguide and the second waveguide i...