ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,605, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).
"Siliconized heterogeneous optical engine" was invented by Seungjae Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Chia-Te Chou (Brea, Calif.), Vivek Raghunathan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brett Sawyer (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A siliconized heterogeneous optical engine. In some embodiments, the siliconized heterogeneous optical engine includes a photonic integrated circuit; an electro-optical chip, on a top surface of the photonic integrated circuit; an electronic integrated circuit, on the top surface of the photonic integrated circuit; an in...