ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,930, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yangzhou Qunfa Heat Exchanger Co. Ltd. (Yangzhou, China).
"Optical phased array device and method of manufacture" was invented by Yating Zhuang (Yangzhou, China), Dachuan Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ya Sha Yi (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical phased array device and method for manufacturing an optical phased array for the optical phased array device. The method includes: forming a base layer of a waveguide array on a base substrate, determining a waveguide pattern defining a plurality of waveguide paths, and f...