US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 3 for "Nested waveguide fan-out structure and methods for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,058, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Nested waveguide fan-out structure and methods for forming the same" was invented by Chun-Hao Fann (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ming Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Heng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical beam splitter includes a multi-stage nested network of waveguide bifurcation branches, which includes: first-stage waveguide bifurcation branches each including a pair of first-stage waveguide segments, and second-stage waveguide bifurcation branches ea...