US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 22 for "Photonic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,928, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic device" was invented by Sui-Ying Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yueh-Ying Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chien-Ying Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chen-Hao Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chien-Chang Lee (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Chia-Ping Lai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic device includes an optical coupler, a photodetector, a waveguide structure, a metal-dielectric stack, a contact, an interlayer dielectric layer, and a protection layer. The optical coupler, the photodetector, and the waveguide str...