ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,660, issued on June 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Light deflection structure to increase optical coupling" was invented by Chih-Wei Tseng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Jui Lin Chao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei City, Taiwan), Yutong Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device including a dielectric structure disposed on a first substrate. An edge coupler is disposed within the dielectric structure and comprises a plurality of op...