US Patent Issued to LIGHTWAVE LOGIC on Sept. 22 for "Slot modulators with engineered rails for improved performance" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,292, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LIGHTWAVE LOGIC INC. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Slot modulators with engineered rails for improved performance" was invented by Michael Lebby (San Francisco), Felipe Lorenzo Della lucia (Paulinia, Brazil) and Jasper A. Drisko (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot modulator coupled to a coplanar transmission line including a pair of spaced apart engineered rails forming a waveguide slot therebetween and opposed slabs coupling the engineered rails to the coplanar transmission line. The engineered rails formed at least partially of highly doped silicon and the slabs formed at least pa...