ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,211, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Chip-to-chip optical data communication system" was invented by Alexandra Wright (Oakland, Calif.), Mark Wade (Berkeley, Calif.), Chen Sun (Berkeley, Calif.), Vladimir Stojanovic (Berkeley, Calif.), Rajeev Ram (San Francisco), Milos Popovic (San Francisco), Roy Edward Meade (Lafayette, Calif.) and Derek Van Orden (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical input/output chiplet is disposed on a first package substrate. The optical input/output chiplet includes one or more supply optical ports for receiving continuous wave light. The optical input/...