ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,847, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-layer silicon photonics apparatus" was invented by Hari Mahalingam (San Jose, Calif.), Harel Frish (Albuquerque, N.M.), Sean McCargar (Rio Ranch, N.M.), Joshua Keener (Albuquerque, N.M.), Shane Yerkes (Placitas, N.M.), John Heck (Berkeley, Calif.) and Ling Liao (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to low numerical aperture (NA) optical couplers, or spot size converters, that include a lateral taper section and/or a vertical adiabatic taper section. In embodiments, the optical couplers may...