ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,919, issued on May 27, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Electro-optic plasmonic devices" was invented by Matteo Cherchi (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electro-optic plasmonic device comprising: a slot waveguide that is defined by a first metallic electrode, a second metallic electrode and dielectric material in a slot between the first and second metallic electrodes. The device is configured to utilize the electric field induced Pockels effect."
The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2020, under Application No....