US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Embedded radio frequency shield between integrated optical modulator and silicon substrate" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,723, issued on June 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Embedded radio frequency shield between integrated optical modulator and silicon substrate" was invented by Long Chen (Marlboro, N.J.), Qianfan Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Li Chen (Marlboro, N.J.) and Mark A. Webster (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method of fabricating the device are provided. The device includes an optical modulator formed in a dielectric material, a silicon substrate adjacent the dielectric material, and a metal shield formed in the dielectric material between the optical modulator and the silicon substrate....