US Patent Issued to University of Southern California, The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 1 for "Optical circuit and method thereof" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,201, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Optical circuit and method thereof" was invented by John Bowers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Sujith Chandran (Los Angeles), Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego), Michael Haney (Los Angeles), Ajey P. Jacob (Watervliet, N.Y.) and Sugeet Sunder (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical circuit includes a resonator including a nonlinear optical material having intensity-dependent absorption, an input, and an output. The optical circuit includes an optical input path coupled to the i...