US Patent Issued to X Development on March 25 for "Metastructured photonic devices for multiplexing or demultiplexing of optical signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,685, issued on March 25, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Metastructured photonic devices for multiplexing or demultiplexing of optical signals" was invented by Sunil Pai (San Jose, Calif.) and Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits, optical elements, and techniques of making and using the same are described. A photonic device includes an input region adapted to receive an optical signal including a multiplexed channel characterized by a distinct wavelength, a dispersive region optically coupled with the input region to receive the op...