US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 18 for "Optical connector with kinematic coupling" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,603, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical connector with kinematic coupling" was invented by Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.), Shawn X. Wang (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Eng Wen Ong (Breinigsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes various optical systems with an optical connector. An optical system includes an integrated circuit and a connector. The integrated circuit includes a grating coupler array. The connector optically couples a plurality of optical fibers to the grating coupler array. The connector engages the integrated circuit at a first attachmen...