US Patent Issued to SMART Photonics Holding on May 6 for "Waveguide structure for a photonic integrated circuit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,595, issued on May 6, was assigned to SMART Photonics Holding B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Waveguide structure for a photonic integrated circuit" was invented by Erik Den Haan (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Rui Manuel Lemos Alvares Dos Santos (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide structure (IOO) for a photonic integrated circuit, comprising: a substrate; an active region (102) comprising a diode junction, the active region comprising: a light emission portion (102a) to emit light in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular the first direction; and a light absorption portion (102b) to absorb...