US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Free space optical communication apparatus, free space optical communication system, and free space optical communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,614, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Free space optical communication apparatus, free space optical communication system, and free space optical communication method" was invented by Koya Takata (Tokyo), Atsushi Kamoi (Tokyo), Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo) and Masaki Aizono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a free space optical communication apparatus with an increased efficiency of optical axis alignment. A free space optical communication apparatus (1) includes: light transmitting sections (10); and an optical axis alignment section (20) configured to align an optical axis of each of the light transmi...