US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 22 for "Optical device and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,931, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical device and method of manufacture" was invented by Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei City, Taiwan), Jui Lin Chao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hao Yu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Shih-Peng Tai (Xinpu Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical devices and methods of manufacture are presented in which a laser die or other heterogeneous device is embedded within an optical device and evanescently coupled to other devices. The evanescent coupling can be performed either from the laser die to a w...