ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,529, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).
"Interposer" was invented by Alexander Dorrestein (Helmond, Netherlands), Jacobus Nicolaas Tuin (Best, Netherlands) and Rutger Wilhelmus Smink (Hamont-Achel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical subassembly comprising: (a) an interposer having first and second opposing sides and defining an alignment aperture extending from said first opposing side to said second opposing side, said interposer defining traces having contacts; (b) a fiber having a first optical axis, said fiber being held such that first optical axis is positioned essent...