US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Aug. 11 for "Photonic wirebond loopback evanescent coupler" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,681, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc (Nashua, N.H.).

"Photonic wirebond loopback evanescent coupler" was invented by Thien An Nguyen (Austin, Texas), Zakary N. Burkley (Amherst, N.H.), Mackenzie A. Van Camp (Lowell, Mass.), Charles J. Turner (Hollis, N.H.), John Jost (Chardonne, Switzerland), Leif Johansson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Gordon B. Morrison (Summerland, Calif.) and Victoria M. Rosborough (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic coupling mechanisms are described. In one example, an evanescent coupler includes a substrate, first and second...