US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Semiconductor devices of optical neural network and methods of forming the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,661, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices of optical neural network and methods of forming the same" was invented by Weiwei Song (San Jose, Calif.) and Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an oxide layer having a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of first waveguides that are disposed across a plurality of first insulator layers, respectively, on the first side of the oxide layer. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of sec...