US Patent Issued to SIVERS PHOTONICS on Jan. 13 for "Photonic device with fiducial marks for alignment of an optical component" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,817, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SIVERS PHOTONICS Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Photonic device with fiducial marks for alignment of an optical component" was invented by Andrew McKee (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic device has a waveguide, such as a ridge waveguide, defined by a waveguide etch, an etched facet defined by a facet etch and having an optical coupling region optically coupled to the waveguide, and a fiducial mark configured for alignment of an optical component, such as a photonic integrated circuit, to the optical coupling region. The fiducial mark has a first portion defined b...