ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,879, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device, photonic circuit and method for adjusting resonant wavelength of optical modulator" was invented by Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chewn-Pu Jou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Tse Tang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides semiconductor devices and photonic circuits. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and an optical modulator disposed on the substrate. The optical modulator includes a first electrical coupling portion ...