US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 20 for "Optical devices and methods of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,036, issued on May 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical devices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Hua-Kung Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Hong Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical devices and methods of manufacture are presented herein. In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes a notch filter, an optical signal detector positioned adjacent to the notch filter, and a mirror positioned to adjacent to the notch filter."

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2023, under Applica...