ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,683, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Direct current (DC) bias and alternating current (AC) power selection signaling for optical wireless communications" was invented by Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Karoly Becze (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an OWC transmitter transmits, to an OWC receiver, a first DC bias parameter, receives, from the OWC receiver, DC bias feedback based on a measurement associated with an OWC link between the OWC transmitter and the OWC receiver, and transmits an OWC signal...