US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Methods for transmitting data via free space spatiotemporal patterns" (Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,377, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods for transmitting data via free space spatiotemporal patterns" was invented by Winston Allen Saunders (Seattle), Maria Leena Kyllikki Viitaniemi (Seattle), Teresa A. Nick (Towson, Md.), Nicholas Andrew Keehn (Kirkland, Wash.), Christian L. Belady (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Eric C. Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding data in a datacenter is provided that includes obtaining data to be encoded, encoding the data to a set of encoded spatiotemporal patterns, and outputting the set of encoded spa...