US Patent Issued to Intel on April 14 for "Micro-photonics parallel data transmission fabric and interconnect" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,707, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Micro-photonics parallel data transmission fabric and interconnect" was invented by Joshua B. Fryman (Corvallis, Ore.), Khaled Ahmed (San Jose, Calif.), Sergey Shumarayev (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Thomas Liljeberg (San Jose, Calif.), Divya Pratap (Hillsboro, Ore.) and James E. Jaussi (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enables optical communication with direct conversion of the electrical signal into an optical signal with an array of optical sources. The use of the array of optical sources can eliminate the need for a large serializer...