US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 12 for "Optical modulator and method for manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,396, issued on May 12, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical modulator and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Wen-Shun Lo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yingkit Felix Tsui (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jing-Hwang Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an optical modulating structure. The optical modulating structure includes a lower member extending along an insulating layer, a first protrusion over the lower member, and a second protrusion over the lower member and separated from the first protrusion. A first mask layer is ...