US Patent Issued to Nubis Communications on Nov. 4 for "Optical fiber-to-chip interconnection" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,321, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nubis Communications Inc. (New Providence, N.J.).

"Optical fiber-to-chip interconnection" was invented by Clinton Randy Giles (Watchung, N.J.), Peter Johannes Winzer (Aberdeen, N.J.), Ron Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter James Pupalaikis (Ramsey, N.J.) and Lukas Elsinger (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling an optical device including: providing a photonic integrated circuit including a plurality of vertical-coupling elements disposed along a main surface of the photonic integrated circuit; attaching an optical subassembly to the photonic integrated circuit; remov...