US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 4 for "Optical power splitter and method of manufacturing the same" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,302, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical power splitter and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tai-Chun Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate, a first optical layer; a high k layer, and a second optical layer. The first optical layer is disposed on the substrate. The first optical layer comprises a top surface, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall opposite thereto. The high k layer is disposed on the top surface of the f...