ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,242, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Coupling interfaces for waveguide structures and methods of fabrication" was invented by Adam Joseph Fruehling (Plano, Texas), Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen, Texas), Bichoy Waguih Bahr (Allen, Texas) and Argyrios Dellis (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a described example, an apparatus includes a first substrate having a first side, a second side, and a coupling interface across a portion of the first side. The coupling interface including an arrangement of subwavelength periodic structures formed in the first substrate. A second substrate ...