US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Photonic device, system and method of making same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,579, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic device, system and method of making same" was invented by Weiwei Song (San Jose, Calif.) and Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic device, system and methods of making photonic devices and systems, the method including: providing a substrate, forming an insulator layer over the substrate, depositing a plurality of waveguide layers and a plurality of insulator spacers at different vertical levels over the insulator layer, wherein adjacent waveguide layers in the plurality of waveguide la...