US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Compact optical resonator with enhancement features" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,526, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compact optical resonator with enhancement features" was invented by Wen-Hao Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an embodiment of a photonics structure that includes a ring optical waveguide on a substrate; a rail optical waveguide configured to couple a light into the ring optical waveguide; and enhancement features configured around the ring optical waveguide and the rail optical waveguide to enhance the photonic structure."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2023, under Appli...