US Patent Issued to 8 RIVERS CAPITAL on Feb. 18 for "Eye safe diverged beam optical wireless communications system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,169, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to 8 RIVERS CAPITAL LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Eye safe diverged beam optical wireless communications system" was invented by William J. Brown (Durham, N.C.) and Hannah Clark (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diverged beam optical transmitter is provided that includes a laser source configured to emit a light beam, and one or more lenses. The diverged beam optical transmitter also includes a diffuser placed between the laser source and the one or more lenses, and configured to increase an intrinsic divergence of the light beam and to fill some portion of the one or more lenses such that the...