US Patent Issued to Vanguard International Semiconductor on March 3 for "Photonic integrated circuit structure and fabrication method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,295, issued on March 3, was assigned to Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photonic integrated circuit structure and fabrication method thereof" was invented by Ming-Cheng Lo (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Chun Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Chang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wu-Hsi Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Che Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hao Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Shih Ho (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate. A waveguide is disposed above the semiconductor substrate and has an inclined plane. A mirror coating layer is conf...