ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,852, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Photonic structures including multiple input/output optical couplers" was invented by Yusheng Bian (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Theodore Letavic (Putnam Valley, N.Y.), Kenneth J. Giewont (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Kevin Dezfulian (Arlington, Va.) and Koushik Ramachandran (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic structures including multiple input/output optical couplers and methods of forming such photonic structures. The photonic structure comprises a light source and a photonics chip including a semiconductor substrate. The photonic s...