ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,249, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BAE SYSTEMS plc (London).
"Power/data transfer" was invented by Simon Bishop (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Carl Martin Matthews (Bournemouth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure there is provided a transmitter unit for providing power and data to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the transmitter unit comprising: a free-space optical transmitter configured to generate and transmit a combined free-space optical beam comprising a power beam and a data beam; and a controller for controlling generation and transmission of the combined free-space optica...