US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 27 for "Bi-directional optical communication system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,375, issued on May 27, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Bi-directional optical communication system" was invented by Khurram Karim Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Jawad Mirza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Salman Abdul Ghafoor (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bi-directional optical communication system employing a minimum number of single-mode high repetition rate pulsed optical signal sources to achieve cost efficiency while maintaining high data rates. The bi-directional optical communication system includes a first optical data processing unit an...