US Patent Issued to ORCA Computing on July 28 for "Solid-state device with optical waveguide as floating gate electrode" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,492, issued on July 28, was assigned to ORCA Computing Ltd. (London).

"Solid-state device with optical waveguide as floating gate electrode" was invented by Brian Mattis (Austin, Texas), Ke Liu (Austin, Texas), Taran Huffman (Austin, Texas) and Bryan Woo (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a floating gate that can be charged in a nonvolatile manner. The floating gate is also structured as an optical waveguide, and maybe optically coupled to a photonic circuit, such as an interferometer."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2021, under Application No. 17/238,553.

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