US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Sept. 22 for "Programmable waveguide devices and methods" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,982, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Programmable waveguide devices and methods" was invented by Stanley Pau (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Programmable waveguide devices and associated methods are described. The waveguide devices can be programmed to operate as an optical switch, an optical attenuator, an interferometer, a mode transformer, an optical computer or other devices. An example programmable waveguide device includes a grid where an electro-optic material is positioned between a plurality of top and bottom electrodes that ...