ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,555, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Teramount Ltd. (Jerusalem).
"Detachable connector for co-packaged optics" was invented by Hesham Taha (Jerusalem) and Abraham Israel (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for detachably connecting at least one optical fiber of a detachable photonic plug to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The detachable photonic plug comprises: a detachable plug die; an optically transparent spacer coupled to the detachable plug die; and at least one optical fiber held between the detachable plug die and the spacer. On the PIC side, apparatus includes a receptacle adapted to receive a...