ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,836, issued on April 7, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated module with metal embedded chips" was invented by Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, Calif.), Florian G. Herrault (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Christopher S. Roper (Oak Park, Calif.) and Partia Naghibi (Canoga Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic module and a method of making same, the module having one or more optoelectronic chips, such as a laser diode typically having six sides, with each optoelectronic chip having two opposing sides (a first side and a second side) abutting and electrically connected to metal regions (preferabl...