US Patent Issued to The University of Adelaide, Universitat Stuttgart on April 21 for "Optical element" (Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,836, issued on April 21, was assigned to The University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia) and Universitat Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Optical element" was invented by Jiawen Li (Adelaide, Australia), Robert McLaughlin (Adelaide, Australia), Simon Thiele (Stuttgart, Germany), Alois Herkommer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Harald GieBen (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element (100) is provided comprising a first surface (102) for emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation, the first surface being arranged for optically coupling to, or being optically coupled to, a portion of an optical fibre (104)...