US Patent Issued to HyperLight on June 16 for "Lithium niobate photonic devices having engineered lithium niobate, silicon dioxide, and electrode extension thickness" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,637, issued on June 16, was assigned to HyperLight Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Lithium niobate photonic devices having engineered lithium niobate, silicon dioxide, and electrode extension thickness" was invented by Prashanta Kharel (Cambridge, Mass.), Mian Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Christian Reimer (Wellesley, Mass.), Kevin Luke (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lingyan He (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device including a waveguide and an electrode is described. The waveguide includes at least one optical material having an electro-optic effect. The electrode includes a channel region and extensions protruding from t...