US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 19 for "Optical waveguide structure with partially overlapping loops in direction dependent material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,094, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Optical waveguide structure with partially overlapping loops in direction dependent material" was invented by Daniel Yap (Malibu, Calif.) and Brett Yurash (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical waveguide structure comprises a nonlinear optical waveguide comprising a set of segments, a set of extension optical waveguides, and a set of wavelength selective couplers that couples light between set of segments in the nonlinear optical waveguide and the set of extension optical waveguides based on a wavelength of light."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, ...