ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,319, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Electro-optic frequency transducer using coupled microdisk resonators" was invented by Ramesh Kudalippalliyalil (Los Angeles), Sujith Chandran (Los Angeles), Akhilesh Jaiswal (Los Angeles) and Ajey P. Jacob (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electro-optic transducer comprising: a first optical disk resonator and a second optical disk resonator, wherein the first optical disk resonator and the second optical disk resonator are optically coupled; a waveguide, the waveguide optically coupled to at least one of the first opti...