ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,812, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sicily Merger Sub II Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switch assembly" was invented by Aaron John Zilkie (Pasadena, Calif.), Guomin Yu (Glendora, Calif.) and Brett Sawyer (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated switch assembly having a stacked configuration, the integrated switch assembly comprising: a first layer, the first layer comprising a photonic integrated circuit, PIC; a second layer, the second layer comprising a switch ASIC; wherein the first layer is mounted onto a substrate and the second layer is mounted on top of the first layer."

The patent was filed on Marc...