US Patent Issued to FOCI FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS on July 21 for "Light-coupling device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,683, issued on July 21, was assigned to FOCI FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light-coupling device" was invented by Ting-Ta Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chieh-Yu Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Yan Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-coupling device includes an interposer, an optical chip, an optical waveguide element and a fiber array connector. The waveguide element is fixed in a locating slot formed by a top recess on the interposer. The optical chip includes a waveguide layer with a light-emitting surface located aside the optical chip. The optical waveguide element...