US Patent Issued to Wistron on Aug. 4 for "Photonic integrated circuit chip" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,242, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wistron Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Photonic integrated circuit chip" was invented by Ching Pao Sun (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Cheng Hung Lu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Guan Fu Lu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip has an empty area and includes a grating coupler array, a photodetector array, an optical modulator module, a plurality of optical waveguides, and a plurality of bonding pads. The photodetector array is configured to transform a light signal from the grating coupler array into an electrical signal. The optical modula...