ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,240, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Multi-core asymmetric STar-routing switch and method for optical routing (MASTR switch and mor)" was invented by Janusz Murakowski (Bear, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical switch includes M switch input waveguides, M being an integer greater than 1; N switch output waveguides, N being an integer greater than M; a plurality of input-waveguide cores coupled to the M switch input waveguides; a plurality of input phase shifters respectively coupled to the plurality of input-waveguide cores; a plurality of output-waveguide cores coupled ...