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Communications Hardware

Rod Alferness

Integrated-optic devices and optical-switching technologies

United StatesEvidence: high confidenceChecked July 2026

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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.

Known forIntegrated-optic devices and optical-switching technologies
FieldCommunications Hardware
Associated withUnited States
Evidence reviewed4 sources
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What did Rod Alferness invent?

Named inventor in the official NAI 2019 program’s elected-2018 Fellows list.

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What did Rod Alferness accomplish?

A concrete physical-technology candidate selected under the strict hardware/materials screen.

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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.