US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 1 for "Technologies for a beam expansion for vertically-emitting photonic integrated circuits" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,212, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for a beam expansion for vertically-emitting photonic integrated circuits" was invented by Nicholas D. Psaila (Lanark, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for beam expansion for vertically-emitting photonic integrated circuits are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, waveguides in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die guide light to vertical couplers, which direct the light from the waveguides out of the top surface of the PIC die. A glass microoptic substrate is mounted on the top surface of the PIC die, positioned ...