ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,384, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optical fiber array with optical passthrough" was invented by Nicholas C. Harris (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jessie Rosenberg (Bedford, Mass.), Chian-min Richard Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sandeep Sane (Chandler, Ariz.), Binoy Shah (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Shashank Gupta (Newton, Mass.) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are optical fiber arrays and optical assemblies included optical fiber arrays. The optical fiber array includes a fiber array chip that has first optical connections disposed on a first edge of the fiber array ch...