US Patent Issued to XILINX on Aug. 25 for "Protection apparatus for a photonic device" (American, Taiwanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,092, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protection apparatus for a photonic device" was invented by Gamal Refai-Ahmed (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chuan Xie (Fremont, Calif.), Chi-Yi Chao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Suresh Ramalingam (Fremont, Calif.), Nagadeven Karunakaran (Butterworth, Malaysia) and Ferdinand F. Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a chip package is provided, and a chip package fabricated using the same are provided. The method includes connecting a photonic die to a substrate of the chip package and attaching a protection apparatus to the subs...