US Patent Issued to Attochron on Oct. 28 for "Radio frequency signal transmission using free space optical communications" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,037, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Attochron LLC (Lexington, Va.).

"Radio frequency signal transmission using 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 a free space optical system for optically transmitting processed radio frequency signals through a variably refractive medium. The system may include a transmitting element configured to receive a first signal and process it to generate a time-division combined signal. The transmitting element includes an optical source to generate a beam o...