US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Detection of optical module misalignment using a light frequency reactive agent" (Colorado, New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,304, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detection of optical module misalignment using a light frequency reactive agent" was invented by Kyle Indukummar Giesen (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Rafaela Frota (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Egduard Ramon Jauregui (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly is provided and includes a first component configured to output light, a second component and an adhesive bonding agent to which a photochromic reactive agent is added and by which the first and second components are attached such that the first component is disposed to output...