US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Pluggable optical connector with interfacial alignment features" (Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,094, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pluggable optical connector with interfacial alignment features" was invented by Wesley B. Morgan (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Mohanraj Prabhugoud (Beaverton, Ore.), David Shia (Portland, Ore.), Eric J. M. Moret (Beaverton, Ore.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.) and Tarek A. Ibrahim (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical connectors with alignment features, and methods of forming the same, are disclosed herein. In one example, an optical ferrule includes holes to couple a fiber array to the optical ferrule, a mating protrusion to mate with an optical recep...