ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,308, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Method for III-V/silicon hybrid integration" was invented by Guomin Yu (Glendora, Calif.), Mohamad Dernaika (Cork, Ireland), Ludovic Caro (Cork, Ireland), Hua Yang (Cork, Ireland) and Aaron John Zilkie (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transfer printing. The method comprising: providing a precursor photonic device, comprising a substrate and a bonding region, wherein the precursor photonic device includes one or more alignment marks located in or adjacent to the bonding region; providing a transfer die, said transfer ...