US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 17 for "Methods and apparatuses for optical and geometric parameter extraction for photonic integrated circuits" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,792, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatuses for optical and geometric parameter extraction for photonic integrated circuits" was invented by Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Va.), Nathan Tyndall (Alexandria, Va.) and Marcel W. Pruessner (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for obtaining photonic parameters. The system includes a computer, an optical source, a first and second optical fiber, a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) structure, and a detector. The computer includes a ...