US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 20 for "Keep-out zone (KOZ) barriers to prevent epoxy flow into v-groove zone on photonics die" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,854, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Keep-out zone (KOZ) barriers to prevent epoxy flow into v-groove zone on photonics die" was invented by Xiaoqian Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Jingyi Huang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Santosh Shaw (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, photonics die includes one or more opto-electronic elements to receive optical signals and generate electrical signals based on the optical signals and a plurality of v-grooves in a surface of the photonics die and at an edge of the die. Each v-groove is to interface with a fiber optic cable and align the fiber op...