ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,510, issued on April 29, was assigned to Skorpios Technologies Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Integration of an unprocessed, direct-bandgap chip into a silicon photonic device" was invented by Stephen B. Krasulick (Albuquerque, N.M.), John Dallesasse (Geneva, Ill.), Amit Mizrahi (San Francisco), Timothy Creazzo (Albuquerque, N.M.), Elton Marchena (Albuquerque, N.M.) and John Y. Spann (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite device for splitting photonic functionality across two or more materials comprises a platform, a chip, and a bond securing the chip to the platform. The platform comprises a base layer and a device...