ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,593, issued on June 23, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Structures for a photonics chip that enable external communication" was invented by Arpan Dasgupta (Beacon, N.Y.), Kevin Dezfulian (Arlington, Va.), Yusheng Bian (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Norman Robson (Fishkill, N.Y.), Brittany Hedrick (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Thomas Houghton (Marlboro, N.Y.), Kenneth J. Giewont (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Koushik Ramachandran (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Daniel W. Fisher (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures for a photonics chip that enable external communication and methods of forming such structure...