US Patent Issued to Tower Semiconductor on July 8 for "Method for manufacturing an optical switching system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,012, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel).

"Method for manufacturing an optical switching system" was invented by Yakov Roizin (Afula, Israel) and Avi Strum (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an optical system, the method includes obtaining an intermediate semiconductor item that comprises a silicon substrate and a stack of layers that comprises a monocrystalline silicon layer and is positioned between two silicon alloy layers; wherein the silicon substrate comprises diffusion regions; and performing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) compl...