ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,521, issued on April 29, was assigned to WUHAN OPTICAL VALLEY INFORMATION OPTOELECTRONICS INNOVATION CENTER Co. LTD (Hubei, China).

"Photodetector with resonant waveguide structure" was invented by Xiao Hu (Wuhan, China), Xi Xiao (Wuhan, China), Daigao Chen (Wuhan, China), Lei Wang (Wuhan, China), Yuguang Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Miaofeng Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a photodetector with a resonant waveguide structure, including: a substrate; a light absorption layer located on the substrate and configured for detecting an optical signal; a resonant waveguide structure including a first waveguide portio...