US Patent Issued to Hangzhou Lightip Technologies on March 31 for "Distributed optical switching and interconnect chip and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,152, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hangzhou Lightip Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Distributed optical switching and interconnect chip and system" was invented by Jiasheng Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Jianjun He (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention discloses a distributed optical switching and interconnect chip and system having multiple connected nodes, each node including an optical routing unit with one side having multiple internal input/output ports and the other side having multiple external input/output ports, a laser array and a photodetector array, connected to the internal inpu...