US Patent Issued to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS on July 21 for "Optical chip and optical communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,676, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical chip and optical communication apparatus" was invented by Masaki Sugiyama (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical chip includes a chip area located on a wafer, and an optical circuit arranged in the chip area. The optical chip includes a first waveguide that is connected to a first operational fiber, a second waveguide, and a first coupler that includes a first port that is connected to the first waveguide and the second waveguide and a second port that is connected to the optical circuit. Furthermore, the optical ch...