ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,605, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Methods for aligning an optical connector with an optical component" was invented by Hassid C. Gurgov (Binyamina, Israel), Santiago Echeverri (Copenhagen, Denmark), Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (Papagou, Greece) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided for aligning an optical connector with an optical component, such as a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). An example method includes providing an optical component comprising at least one optical port on a surface of the optical component, where...