US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on July 15 for "Systems and methods for processing optical signals" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,313, issued on July 15, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for processing optical signals" was invented by Robert Lindquist (Madison, Ala.) and Patrick Reardon (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for processing optical signals. In some embodiments, an optical system has an optical device for receiving a plurality of optical signals and processing such signals in a desired way. The optical device has one or more functional layers th...