US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 18 for "Waveguide structure and method for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,671, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Waveguide structure and method for forming the same" was invented by Huan-Neng Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Feng-Wei Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Min-Hsiang Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chewn-Pu Jou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Wen-Shiang Liao (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical attenuating structure is provided. The optical attenuating structure includes a substrate, a waveguide, doping regions, an optical attenuating member, and a dielectric layer. The waveguide is e...