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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
May. 23, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Minas Tanielian, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael J. LaGasse, Nutting Lake, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/32 ; G02B 6/35 ; G02B 7/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/32 ; G02B 6/35 ; G02B 7/02 ;
Abstract
Electrostatic levitation and positioning of a charged, spherical micro-lens to steer an optical beam from a transmit fiber to a receive lens/fiber pair. Bundled arrays of N fibers and lenses provide a switch having a switch count that scales linearly in the port count N.