US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Structures and methods for stress and gap mitigation in integrated optics microelectromechanical systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,065, issued on Feb. 17.

"Structures and methods for stress and gap mitigation in integrated optics microelectromechanical systems" was invented by Francois Menard (Trois-Rivieres, Canada), Jonathan Briere (Terrebonne, Canada), Martin Berard (Repentigny, Canada), Mael Bruder (Montreal), Frederic Nabki (Montreal), Michael Menard (Verdun, Canada), Mohannad Elsayed (Verdun, Canada), Suraj Sharma (Montreal) and Damien Michel (Bromont, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon Photonics is a candidate technology for adding integrated optics functionality, either passive or active optical waveguides) to integrated circuits by leveraging...