US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 26 for "Coaxial optical front end for optical wireless communication" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,421, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coaxial optical front end for optical wireless communication" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Karoly Becze (Escondido, Calif.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Sam Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity via an optical wireless communication link, a first optical wireless signal using photodetectors positioned on a photodetector panel of the UE....