ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,017, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel).
"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: "An optical switching system, including a silicon substrate; a first switching cell that is formed on the silicon substrate, wherein the first switching cell includes first till thirs ports, a monocrystalline silicon waveguide (MSW) that comprises a first MSW segment and a second MSW segment; and an actuation unit that is configured to move each one of the first MSW segment and the second MSW segment between at least t...