US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on April 14 for "High-throughput manufacturing of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) waveguides using multiple exposures" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,102, issued on April 14, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"High-throughput manufacturing of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) waveguides using multiple exposures" was invented by Linan Jiang (Tucson, Ariz.), Stanley K. H. Pau (Tucson, Ariz.), Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Ariz.) and Thomas L. Koch (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a method of forming a waveguide in a polymer film disposed on a substrate, a plurality of regions on a polymer film are selectively exposed to a first dosage of radiation. The polymer film is formed from a material ...