US Patent Issued to Ayar Labs on Sept. 15 for "Photonic fanout" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,746, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ayar Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photonic fanout" was invented by Roy Edward Meade (Lafayette, Calif.), Vladimir Stojanovic (Berkeley, Calif.) and Mark Wade (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic fanout die has a planar structure that has a top surface, a bottom surface, and outer side surfaces extending between the top surface and the bottom surface around an outer perimeter of the planar structure. The planar structure includes an opening formed within the outer perimeter. The opening has side surfaces that extend from the top surface to the bottom surface. The photo...