ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,903, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aeluma Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Integrated active silicon photonic devices and methods thereof" was invented by Bei Shi (Goleta, Calif.), Bowen Song (Goleta, Calif.) and Jonathan Klamkin (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated systems including photonic integrated circuit (PIC) devices and methods of fabrication using selective area heteroepitaxy (SAH). The methods include forming a plurality of waveguide structures overlying a substrate, forming a cavity region between the waveguide structures, and forming a plurality of device materials within the cavity region such that an a...