US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Sept. 1 for "Photonic chip and infrared imaging system using such a photonic chip" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,204, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Photonic chip and infrared imaging system using such a photonic chip" was invented by Mathieu Dupoy (Coublevie, France) and Cyrielle Monpeurt (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic chip for scene illumination, the photonic chip comprises a substrate comprising a face with an etching, a plurality of waveguides extending parallel to a plane formed by the etched face of the substrate, each waveguide being configured to guide at least one light beam, a plurality of diffraction gratings, respectively formed...