ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,143, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Optically integrated antenna systems and methods" was invented by Luis Alberto Campos (Superior, Colo.), Jing Wang (Broomfield, Colo.), Mu Xu (Broomfield, Colo.) and Zhensheng Jia (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio system includes a feed network, an edge wavelength switching system (EWSS), a photodetector, and a broadband lens-based antenna subsystem. The feed network aggregates a plurality of unmodulated optical carriers and modulated optical carriers for delivery to an optical link. The EWSS receives the plurality o...