US Patent Issued to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA on June 30 for "Microfabrication technique for structuring non-planar electromagnetic waveguides" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,649, issued on June 30, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy).

"Microfabrication technique for structuring non-planar electromagnetic waveguides" was invented by Ferruccio Pisanello (Lecce, Italy), Massimo De Vittorio (Lecce, Italy), Marco Pisanello (Lecce, Italy), Antonio Balena (Copertino, Italy), Barbara Spagnolo (Corigliano d'Otranto, Italy), Filippo Pisano (Lecce, Italy), Marco Bianco (Maglie, Italy) and Leonardo Sileo (Calimera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a multifunctional electromagnetic waveguide from a tapered optical fiber is provided. The method invol...