ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,529, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Two-dimensional scalable high-power optical phased array architecture with beam steering" was invented by Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device including an array of optical transmitters, each element of the array including an optical source and an antenna coupled to the optical source. The communications device also includes a plurality of tunable delay components interconnecting transmitters in the array of optical transmitters, and a communications sign...