US Patent Issued to The MITRE, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 23 for "Compact piezoelectric photonic crystal modulator" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,664, issued on June 23, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.), National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compact piezoelectric photonic crystal modulator" was invented by David Heim (McLean, Va.), Henry Wen (McLean, Va.), Mark Dong (McLean, Va.), Hugo Larocque (McLean, Va.), Andrew Leenheer (McLean, Va.), Gerald Gilbert (McLean, Va.), Matthew Eichenfield (McLean, Va.), Mikkel Heuck (McLean, Va.) and Dirk Englund (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a photonic modulator and methods for controlling a phot...