US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD on Nov. 4 for "Waveguides" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,307, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD (Salford, Great Britain).

"Waveguides" was invented by Maziar Nezhad (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical waveguide apparatus for guiding optical radiation therein, comprising a spring defining an optical grating structure with a grating period which is mechanically variable to control the Bloch-mode effective refractive index and/or optical path of at least a part of the optical waveguide in respect of a given frequency of guided optical radiation."

The patent was filed on June 4, 2019, under Application No. 15/734,380.

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