US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 29 for "Apparatus and method for generating a parameterized waveguide optical elements" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,021, issued on April 29, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method for generating a parameterized waveguide optical elements" was invented by Feng-Wei Kuo (Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Wen-Shiang Liao (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating a physical layout for a grating coupler integrated in a photonically-enabled circuit are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method receives a parametrized wavelength, a parametrized first refractive index, a parametrized second refractive index, a parametrized tap...