US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method for supporting optical aligner" (Singaporean, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,660, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Apparatus and method for supporting optical aligner" was invented by David Meadowcroft (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain), Near Margalit (Westlake Village, Calif.), Gary Fong Kem Goon (Singapore), Hari Potluri (Milpitas, Calif.), Han Peng Goh (Singapore) and Sheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for supporting two fiber array unit (FAU) connectors in alignment with respective lenses of a photonics integrated circuit (PIC) includes a frame with a pair of arm sections joined with two side sections of a...