US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 8 for "Pillar structures on an optical waveguide" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,261, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pillar structures on an optical waveguide" was invented by Brandon C. Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.), Gang Duan (Chandler, Ariz.), Jeremy D. Ecton (Gilbert, Ariz.), Suddhasattwa Nad (Chandler, Ariz.) and Srinivas V. Pietambaram (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to systems, apparatuses, techniques for an optical waveguide that includes a plurality of pillar structures that are in an optical path between the optical waveguide and a PIC. In embodiments, the plurality of pillar structures form an evanescent coupling structure that ...