US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,348, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator" was invented by Attila Mekis (Carlsbad, Calif.), Subal Sahni (La Jolla, Calif.), Yannick De Koninck (Mechelen, Belgium), Gianlorenzo Masini (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Faezeh Gholami (Guttenberg, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a vertical junction high-speed phase modulator are disclosed and may include a semiconductor device having a semiconductor waveguide including a slab section, a rib section extending above the slab section, and raised ridges extending ab...