ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,266, issued on July 1, was assigned to AIRBUS SAS (Blagnac, France).
"Pointing units and methods of operating pointing units" was invented by Crisanto Quintana Sanchez (Bristol, Great Britain), Gavin Erry (Bristol, Great Britain) and Yoann Thueux (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pointing unit (100) for use with a free space optical (FSO) communications terminal (105) including an optical arrangement (101) of one or more optically transmissive steering elements (101a, 101b). The steering elements (101a, 101b) are arranged in an optical path of an incident beam (107) entering the optical arrangement (100), and th...