US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Optical device for coupling light and method for fabricating the same" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,565, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical device for coupling light and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Chan-Hong Chern (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chih-Chang Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Chewn-Pu Jou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Tsung Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Feng-Wei Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Min-Hsiang Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Weiwei Song (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device for coupling light propagating between a waveguide and an optical transmission component is provided. The optical device incl...