US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 6 for "Electro-optical circuits with modular switchable photonic interface" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,376, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electro-optical circuits with modular switchable photonic interface" was invented by Suddhasattwa Nad (Chandler, Ariz.), Benjamin Duong (Phoenix), Hiroki Tanaka (Gilbert, Ariz.), Brandon Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jeremy Ecton (Gilbert, Ariz.), Gang Duan (Chandler, Ariz.), Srinivas Pietambaram (Chandler, Ariz.) and Hari Mahalingam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) module includes a photonic IC, an electrical IC, and a switchable waveguide device that, using a signal from the electrical IC, controls optical signals to or fr...