US Patent Issued to Panduit on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus and method for low latency free-space optical communications" (Illinois, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,089, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Apparatus and method for low latency free-space optical communications" was invented by Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.), Richard J. Pimpinella (Prairieville, La.), Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.) and Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low latency free-space optical data communication channel has at least two opposing optical collimators for transmitting an optical communication signal in the form of a parallel beam across a free-space channel. The input of the collimators are multi-core optical fibers. Multiple cores of the multi-co...