US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Two-dimensional grating coupler and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,623, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Two-dimensional grating coupler and method of forming the same" was invented by Cheng-Tse Tang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Kang Liu (Taichung, Taiwan), Hau-Yan Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yingkit Felix Tsui (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a grating coupler includes: providing an initial design layout of the grating coupler, wherein the initial design layout includes: a taper section, comprising a pair of tapers; and a grating section coupled to the taper section, the grating section having...