US Patent Issued to ZTE on Feb. 17 for "Micro-ring modulator and method for manufacturing micro-ring modulator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,061, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Micro-ring modulator and method for manufacturing micro-ring modulator" was invented by Haining Chong (Shenzhen, China) and Ningfeng Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a micro-ring modulator and a method for manufacturing a micro-ring modulator. The micro-ring modulator includes at least one straight waveguide and at least one surface plasmon polariton micro-ring resonator coupled to the straight waveguide. The straight waveguide is configured for transmitting an optical signal; and the surface plasmon polariton micro-ring resonator...