US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 16 for "Electro-optical device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,635, issued on June 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electro-optical device" was invented by Shuen-Shin Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Tsung-Fu Tsai (Changhua County, Taiwan), Szu-Wei Lu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chung-Shi Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optical device includes a waveguide and a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode at first and second sides of the waveguide, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode directly contact and extend beyond th...