US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 24 for "Integrated optical devices and methods of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,065, issued on March 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated optical devices and methods of forming the same" was invented by Feng-Wei Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Wen-Shiang Liao (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated optical device includes a substrate, a waveguide structure and a grating structure. The substrate has a waveguide region and a grating region adjacent to each other. The waveguide structure is disposed on the substrate in the waveguide region. The grating structure is disposed on the substrate in the grating region. In some embodim...