US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 28 for "Rapid fiber optic alignment techniques for optical switching" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,421, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Rapid fiber optic alignment techniques for optical switching" was invented by Adam Joseph Fruehling (Garland, Texas), James Norman Hall (Parker, Texas), Argyrios Dellis (Culver City, Calif.), Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas) and Patrick Ian Oden (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning optical signals in a fiber optic switching device with one or two phase light modulators (PLMs) includes configuring the phase elements of the PLMs with first initial settings, to direct an optical signal from an input fiber to an output fiber. An initial ...