US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Photonic integrated circuit, light detection and ranging system and method for operating the same" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,612, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuit, light detection and ranging system and method for operating the same" was invented by George Rakuljic (Santa Monica, Calif.), Naresh Satyan (Pasadena, Calif.), Yaakov Vilenchik (Jerusalem), Ron Friedman (Givat Oz, Israel), Daniel Grodensky (Binyamina, Israel), Israel Petronius (Haifa, Israel) and Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit, comprising a semiconductor photonic substrate having integrated therein: at least one light receiving input; at least one optical splitter to bran...