US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Sept. 9 for "Dual-polarization rotationally-insensitive monostatic transceiver with standard fiber" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,369, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Dual-polarization rotationally-insensitive monostatic transceiver with standard fiber" was invented by Andrew M. Kowalevicz (Arlington, Va.), Gary M. Graceffo (Burke, Va.) and Benjamin P. Dolgin (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes polarization beamsplitters that each separate incoming and outgoing optical signals having different polarizations. The apparatus also includes directionally-dependent polarization rotation optical assemblies that each maintain a polarization of one of the incoming and outgoing optical signals and to r...