ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,319, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local silicon-photonics temperature sensor" was invented by Sujit Handanhal Ramachandra (Allentown, Pa.), Abhishek Bhat (Allentown, Pa.) and Prajwal M. Kasturi (Breinigsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for detecting temperature in an electro-optical circuit (e.g., an electro-optical transceiver). According to an embodiment, an electro-optical circuit includes a photonic integrated circuit and an electronic integrated circuit. The photonic integrated circuit includes an optical component and ...