US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 7 for "Photonic device and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,944, issued on July 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic device and method of manufacture" was invented by Tung-Liang Shao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei City, Taiwan), Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Ke (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and You-Rong Shaw (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a photonic device includes a photonic interconnect structure that includes a first cladding layer; a waveguide over the first cladding layer; a second cladding layer disposed over the waveguide; a transparent material in the...