US Patent Issued to Attochron on March 11 for "Active feedback noise reduction for free space optical communications" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,021, issued on March 11, was assigned to Attochron LLC (Lexington, Va.).

"Active feedback noise reduction for free space optical communications" was invented by Thomas M. Chaffee (Lexington, Va.) and Wayne H. Knox (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for FSO systems using active feedback noise reduction for light transmitted through a variably refractive medium. A telescope receives an inbound beam of light. A detector system includes a routing system, a noise reduction system, and a first detector. The noise reduction system has a splitter, a second detector, a controll...