US Patent Issued to Lightmatter on Sept. 22 for "Optical fiber shuffle circuit" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,934, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optical fiber shuffle circuit" was invented by Robert Turner (Georgetown, Texas), Bradford Turcott (Georgetown, Texas) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are optical fiber shuffle circuits designed to programmably interconnect any number of ports without having to rely on thousands of optical fibers or more. The optical fiber shuffle circuits developed by the inventors and described herein can be built into photonic interposers. Photonic interposers of the types described herein include, for example, semicondu...