US Patent Issued to Skorpios Technologies on May 27 for "Monolithically-integrated, polarization-independent circulator" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,884, issued on May 27, was assigned to Skorpios Technologies Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Monolithically-integrated, polarization-independent circulator" was invented by Majid Sodagar (Albuquerque, N.M.), Wenyi Wang (Albuquerque, N.M.), Changyi Li (Albuquerque, N.M.), Guoliang Li (Albuquerque, N.M.), Murtaza Askari (Albuquerque, N.M.), Yi Wang (Albuquerque, N.M.), John Dallesasse (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Stephen B. Krasulick (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarization-independent, optical circulator is formed in silicon photonics. The polarization-independent, optical circulator uses an optical splitter having two c...