US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "Optical control switch and electronic device comprising same" (Russian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,109, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical control switch and electronic device comprising same" was invented by Elena Aleksandrovna Shepeleva (Kostroma, Russia), Mikhail Nikolaevich Makurin (Moscow region, Russia) and Chongmin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optically-controlled switch is provided. The optically-controlled switch includes a circuit board including a transmission line and a photoconductive switching region that is adjacent to the transmission line and has electrical properties controllable by light and a laser located on the circ...