US Patent Issued to AIRBUS on Feb. 10 for "Method for polarization compensation and free-space optical communication system for aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,260, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AIRBUS S.A.S. (Blagnac, France).

"Method for polarization compensation and free-space optical communication system for aircraft" was invented by Nils Hellerhoff (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Alberto Comin (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for polarization compensation includes: (a) generating at least one beam of an electromagnetic wave; (b) sending the at least one beam through a physical medium; (c) receiving the at least one beam of an electromagnetic wave after it has traversed the physical medium; (d) measuring the intensity of the electromagnetic wave after it tra...