Profile overview
Who is Rod Alferness?
Rod Alferness is an inventor associated with United States. Their documented work in communications hardware includes Integrated-optic devices and optical-switching technologies, the contribution at the center of this evidence-backed profile.
Rod Alferness is retained for integrated-optic devices and optical-switching technologies, with program identity, current living-status screening, and an inventor-specific patent-index source preserved.
What did Rod Alferness invent?
Named inventor in the official NAI 2019 program’s elected-2018 Fellows list.
What did Rod Alferness accomplish?
A concrete physical-technology candidate selected under the strict hardware/materials screen.
What is known about Rod Alferness today?
Present in the current NAI Fellows Directory checked 2026-07-27 without the directory’s deceased asterisk, and absent from the current NAI In Memoriam list checked the same day.





