US Patent Issued to Senko Advanced Components on Sept. 23 for "Optical connection of optical fibers to grating couplers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,629, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Senko Advanced Components Inc. (Hudson, Mass.).

"Optical connection of optical fibers to grating couplers" was invented by Robert Ryan Vallance (Newbury Park, Calif.), Shuhe Li (Pasadena, Calif.), Rand D. Dannenberg (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Michael K. Barnoski (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To couple light between an optical fiber and a grating coupler of a photonic integrated circuits, a mirror is provided to turn light to/from the optical fiber to allow the axis of the optical fiber to be oriented at small angles or parallel to the surface of the PIC, and lowere...