US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus and method of manufacturing a vertically disaggregated photonic device" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,420, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method of manufacturing a vertically disaggregated photonic device" was invented by Henning Braunisch (Phoenix) and Adel Elsherbini (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods of manufacture are disclosed. In one example the apparatus includes a first substrate that has a first surface, a first optical waveguide that is at or near the first surface of the first substrate, a second substrate that has a second surface. The second substrate is coupled to the first substrate at an interface. The apparatus also has a photonic int...