ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,878, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).
"Optoelectronic device and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Aaron John Zilkie (Pasadena, Calif.), Henri Nykanen (Espoo, Finland), Frank Peters (Dublin), Charles Su-Chang Tsai (Pasadena, Calif.) and Guomin Yu (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device. The device comprises: a silicon-on-insulator platform, including a silicon waveguide, formed in a silicon device layer, a silicon substrate, and a cavity; a III-V semiconductor based device, located within the cavity of the silicon-on-insulator platform...