ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,288, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nexus Photonics Inc (Goleta, Calif.).

"Temperature stabilized dielectric based on-chip interferometers" was invented by Tin Komljenovic (Goleta, Calif.), Ali Eshaghian Dorche (Goleta, Calif.) and Minh Tran (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a dual-geometry waveguide structure with an input, an output and two coupler structures optically coupled using arms of different optical path lengths. Each arm has a first passive waveguide having a first length and a dual-core waveguide geometry, coupled by a transition structure to a second passive waveguide having a second length...