US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK-NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK on Feb. 17 for "Devices and methods for waveguide alignment" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,063, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK-NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK (Cork, Ireland).

"Devices and methods for waveguide alignment" was invented by Peter O'Brien (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards aligning a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) through providing a PIC with a marker waveguide, wherein a marker waveguide is a waveguide having: a first end located at the edge of the PIC wherein the first end is coupled to an edge coupling; and a second end coupled to a grating coupler or a device coupler, wherein: the grating coupler or device coupler is ...