US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 24 for "Photonic integrated circuit, light detection and ranging system and vehicle having the same" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,691, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuit, light detection and ranging system and vehicle having the same" was invented by George Rakuljic (Santa Monica, Calif.), Naresh Satyan (Pasadena, Calif.), Ron Friedman (Givat Oz, Israel), Israel Petronius (Haifa, Israel), Yaakov Vilenchik (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Christopher T. Cotton (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit is provided having a plurality of light paths each configured to branch light received from at least one light receiving input to a first light path section and a second...