US Patent Issued to NANJING UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Optical phased array device that can flexibly set the light splitting weight and has good scalability" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,114, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Optical phased array device that can flexibly set the light splitting weight and has good scalability" was invented by Wei Jiang (Nanjing, China) and Guihan Wu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical phased array device, which can flexibly set the light splitting weight and has good scalability, includes a light splitting network, phase shifters, and emission units. Among them, the light splitting network of the device can set the optical power weight of the array element freely and has good scalability. The light splitting network of opti...