ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,386, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sicily Merger Sub II Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network switches with photonic interconnect platforms" was invented by David Lazovsky (Los Gatos, Calif.), Martinus Bos (San Jose, Calif.), Philip Winterbottom (San Jose, Calif.) and Subal Sahni (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch is disclosed that features a hybrid electro-photonic integrated circuit devices that include an electronic circuit layer mounted on a photonic circuit layer. In one aspect, a switch includes a photonic circuit layer implemented in one or more first semiconductor chips. The photonic circuit l...