US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Photonic integrated circuit with a random sparse optical phased array" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,758, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Photonic integrated circuit with a random sparse optical phased array" was invented by Moe D. Soltani (Belmont, Mass.), James G. Leatham (Los Angeles), Duane D. Smith (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Alexander Niechayev (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is disclosed herein. The PIC can include a substrate, a main optical waveguide supported by the substrate. The main optical waveguide can be in communication with an electromagnetic radiation source, and configured to receive electromagnetic radia...