US Patent Issued to Imec vzw on July 21 for "Alignment-tolerant photonic sensing system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,493, issued on July 21, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Alignment-tolerant photonic sensing system" was invented by Roelof Jansen (Heverlee, Belgium) and Jeonghwan Song (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to alignment-tolerant photonic sensing systems. An example sensing system includes an illumination module for delivery of a light beam. The sensing system also includes a cartridge that includes a photonic sensor chip having a length axis and a width axis. The photonic sensor chip includes a plurality of grating couplers in a first areal portion of the photonic sensor chip. The p...