US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Methods for welding an optical fiber to a photonic integrated circuit" (Israeli, Greek, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,237, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Methods for welding an optical fiber to a photonic integrated circuit" was invented by Roy Rudnick (Jerusalem), Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Isabelle Cestier (Haifa, Israel), Ran Hasson Ruso (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (Papagou, Greece), Anna Sandomirsky (Nesher, Israel) and Vladimir Iakovlev (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple methods are provided for fiber optic welding on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). An example method includes providing a PIC, forming an attachment surface on the PIC config...