US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 29 for "Dual ring resonator systems with thermal isolation, optical performance, and reduced transmission loss and methods thereof" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,718, issued on July 29, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Dual ring resonator systems with thermal isolation, optical performance, and reduced transmission loss and methods thereof" was invented by Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jiahui Wang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual ring resonator including a base substrate, and a silicon oxide layer positioned on the base substrate having a first waveguide, a primary ring resonator optically coupled to the first waveguide, a second w...