US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Optical coupling apparatus and methods of making same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,539, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical coupling apparatus and methods of making same" was invented by Chan-Hong Chern (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Min-Hsiang Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatus and methods for optical coupling in optical communications. In one embodiment, an apparatus for optical coupling is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a planar layer; an array of scattering elements arranged in the planar layer at a plurality of intersections of a first set of concentric elliptical curves crossing with a second set...