US Patent Issued to EFFECT PHOTONICS on March 17 for "Photonic integrated circuit and opto-electronic system comprising the same" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,672, issued on March 17, was assigned to EFFECT PHOTONICS B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Photonic integrated circuit and opto-electronic system comprising the same" was invented by Niall Patrick Kelly (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Tim Koene (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Emil Kleijn (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PIC having at least three fiber-to-chip coupling locations, an InP-based polarization handling unit, at least two optical splitter-combiners, at least two optical receivers, and a plurality of semiconductor-based optical waveguides. The plurality of semiconductor-based optical waveguides are configur...