ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,526, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PURELIFI Ltd. (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

"Optical wireless communication apparatus and method" was invented by Harald Ulrich Haas (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Rui Bian (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Ardimas Andi Purwita (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical wireless communication (OWC) interface apparatus comprises: at least one input and/or output configured to transfer data signals from and/or to a bus device; optical interface circuitry configured to transfer optical wireless communication (OWC) signals representative of the data signals between the OWC interface ...