US Patent Issued to Honeywell Ltd. Honeywell on July 15 for "Optical communication system using a photonic lantern for fine point tracking" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,828, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honeywell Ltd. Honeywell Limitee (Mississauga, Canada).

"Optical communication system using a photonic lantern for fine point tracking" was invented by Alan Scott (Arnprior, Canada), Hugh Podmore (Toronto) and Sheng Hai Zheng (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication system using a photonic lantern for fine point tracking is disclosed. The optical communication system may comprise a photonic lantern, a signal processing unit including one or more fiber splitters to sample a fraction of a received signal in each single mode fiber of the photonic lantern, and one or more int...