ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,354, issued on July 14, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Laser chips attached to a photonics chip by multiple anchors" was invented by Zhuojie Wu (Port Chester, N.Y.), Koushik Ramachandran (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Yunyao Jiang (Mechanicville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures including a photonics chip and a cavity-mounted laser chip, and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a photonics chip including a substrate and a cavity in the substrate, a laser chip including a body inside the cavity, a first anchor disposed inside the cavity adjacent to a first corner of the bod...