ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,290, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Optical data transfer" was invented by Douglas James Kelly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benn Charles Thomsen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dushyanth Narayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical data transfer system, a beam modulator is configured to embed a set of data in an input beam. A multimode optical waveguide network has an in-coupling region for receiving the input beam. The multimode optical waveguide network is configured to guide the input be...