US Patent Issued to X Development on July 1 for "Multimodal photonic components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,878, issued on July 1, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multimodal photonic components" was invented by Jesse Lu (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian John Adolf (San Mateo, Calif.) and Martin Friedrich Schubert (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for designing a multimodal photonic component. In one aspect, a method includes defining a loss function within a simulation space including multiple voxels and encompassing features of the multimodal photonic component. The loss function corresponds to a ...