US Patent Issued to X Development on May 27 for "Designing photonic integrated circuits based on arrays of inverse-designed components" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,647, issued on May 27, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Designing photonic integrated circuits based on arrays of inverse-designed components" was invented by Cyril Bortolato (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for designing a photonic device is provided. A design optimization system receives an initial design for the photonic device. The initial design includes one or more inputs, one or more outputs, a number of subcomponent regions, and a number of waveguides for connecting the subcomponent regions. The design optimization system simulates each subcomponent...