ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,033, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SMART Photonics Holding B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Photonic integrated circuit and method" was invented by Steven Everard Filippus Kleijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Antonio Bonardi (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit, PIC, for use in generating a random number. The PIC comprising: light source on a substrate; a light detector on the substrate configured to, in response to receipt of light from the light source, output an electrical signal for use in generating the random number; and a light guidance system on the substrate configured to di...