US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 14 for "Optical communication system for passive optical networks and high data rate communication" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,198, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Optical communication system for passive optical networks and high data rate communication" 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 ...