ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,038, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for transmitting signals in a free space optics communication system" was invented by Amr Mohamed Ragheb (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saleh Abdullah Alshebeili (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Sami Almiaman (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saud Ahmad Aloiss (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Faisal Jasser Aljasser (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free space optics system includes a transmitter for generating an orbital angular mode (OAM) laser signal and a receiver. The OAM laser signal may be a Multiplexed Laguerre Gaussian (Mux-LG) ...