US Patent Issued to Intel on March 31 for "Technologies for a beam expansion and collimation for photonic integrated circuits" (California, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,096, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for a beam expansion and collimation for photonic integrated circuits" was invented by John M. Heck (Berkeley, Calif.), Haisheng Rong (Pleasanton, Calif.), Harel Frish (Albuquerque, N.M.), Ankur Agrawal (Chandler, Ariz.), Boping Xie (San Ramon, Calif.), Randal S. Appleton (Albuquerque, N.M.), Hari Mahalingam (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Krichevsky (Cupertino, Calif.), Pooya Tadayon (Portland, Ore.), Ling Liao (Fremont, Calif.) and Eric J. M. Moret (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for beam expansion and collimation f...