US Patent Issued to Attochron on Oct. 14 for "Reducing scintillation noise in free-space optical communications" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,207, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Attochron LLC (Lexington, Va.).

"Reducing scintillation noise in free-space optical communications" was invented by Thomas M. Chaffee (Lexington, Va.), Wayne H. Knox (Rochester, N.Y.), Alexander B. LeBon (Lexington, Va.), Brian M. Gregory (Lexington, Va.) and Taz M. Colangelo (Lexington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and instrumentalities are described herein for transmitting information optically. The optical source may be configured to generate a beam. The beam may include a series of light pulses. The beam of light may be modulated. A modulator may be configured to modul...