ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,920, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low-power optical input/output chiplet for ethernet switches (TeraPHYe)" was invented by Vladimir Stojanovic (Berkeley, Calif.), Hugo Saleh (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Roy Edward Meade (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch system-in-package includes a carrier substrate with a network switch chip and a plurality of photonic input/output modules disposed on the carrier substrate. Each of the plurality of photonic input/output modules includes a module substrate and a plurality of photonic chip pods disposed on the module substrate. Each ...