US Patent Issued to Attochron on Sept. 30 for "USPL-FSO lasercom point-to-point and point-to-multipoint optical wireless communication" (Virginia, California, New Mexico, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. RE50,610, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Attochron LLC (Lexington, Va.).

"USPL-FSO lasercom point-to-point and point-to-multipoint optical wireless communication" was invented by Thomas Malcolm Chaffee (Lexington, Va.), Paul F. Szajowski (Chatham, N.J.), Isaac Kim (La Jolla, Calif.) and Alexandre Braga (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhancements in optical beam propagation performance can be realized through the utilization of ultra-short pulse laser (USPL) sources for laser transmit platforms, which are can be used throughout the telecommunication network infrastructure fabric. One or more of the described and illu...