US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 22 for "Optical coupler with different waveguide materials" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,932, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical coupler with different waveguide materials" was invented by Tiehui Su (San Jose, Calif.), Boris M. Vulovic (Campbell, Calif.), Wei Qian (Walnut, Calif.), Kelly Magruder (Albuquerque, N.M.), Pegah Seddighian (San Jose, Calif.), Wenhua Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Harel Frish (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Nutan Gautam (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein may relate to an optical coupler that includes a silicon substrate and a silicon nitride waveguide positioned on the silicon substrate. The silicon nitride waveguide may be configu...