ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,763, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic circuitry having multiple optical resonators" was invented by Wen-Hao Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a first ring resonator with a first radius, a second ring resonator with a second radius, and an optical waveguide feeding the first and second ring resonators in parallel. The first and second ring resonators are positioned on opposing sides of the optical waveguide. The first and second ring resonators and the optical waveguide are disposed above a semiconductor substr...