ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,335, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic device with fully-connected photonic antenna array" was invented by Bertram R Gunzelmann (Koenigsbrunn, Germany), Zdravko Boos (Munich), Ramin Khayatzadeh (Munich) and Nedim Muharemovic (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a fully-connected photonic phased antenna array having a set of antennas, each with an antenna resonating element coupled to a set of photodiodes. Optical modulators may receive different wireless data streams and may generate modulated signals. Optical paths may provide the modulated s...