ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,106, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"MEMS mirror for coupling and compensating laser device to photonic integrated circuit" was invented by Jaleel Moidu (Ottawa) and John Heanue (Manchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an opto-electronic module including a first substrate, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) attached to the first substrate, a laser assembly attached to the first substrate, and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) micro-mirror device positioned between the laser and the waveguide. The PIC comprising a waveguide. The laser assembly is configured t...