US Patent Issued to Corning on July 28 for "Metasurface-based optical signal manipulation devices for optical fiber communications" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,473, issued on July 28, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Metasurface-based optical signal manipulation devices for optical fiber communications" was invented by Paulo Clovis Dainese Jr. (Painted Post, N.Y.), Kangmei Li (San Jose, Calif.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Jun Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a fiber input, the fiber input comprising a plurality of input fiber cores receiving a plurality of input optical signals. The apparatus also comprises an optical signal manipulation device that is one of a fiber mode shuffler, a fiber coupler, a power splitter, or a...