US Patent Issued to X Development on Nov. 4 for "Polarization beam splitter using asymmetric power splitting and multipath interferometry" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,395, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Polarization beam splitter using asymmetric power splitting and multipath interferometry" was invented by Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarization beam splitter includes an input port, first and second output ports, and a polarization splitting region coupled between the input port and the first and second output ports. The input port is adapted to receive guided optical signals that are polarization multiplexed, including a transverse electric (TE) optical signal and a transverse magnetic (TM) optical signal. The ...