ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,416, issued on Aug. 26, 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.), Thaddeus Ladd (Woodland Hills, 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, a set of tuning optical waveguides, a set of wavelength selective couplers that couples light between the nonlinear optical waveguide and one or more tuning optical waveguides in the set of tuning optical waveguide based on a wavelength of light, and a set of ...