ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,748, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Anello Photonics Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated photonics optical gyroscopes with improved sensitivity utilizing high density silicon nitride waveguides" was invented by Avi Feshali (Los Angeles), Mario Paniccia (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Warren Bruce Jin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to introducing structural modifications in a waveguide-based optical structure in order to more tightly pack adjacent waveguide turns in the optical structure. The optical structure can be used as the rotational sensing element of an op...