US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Sept. 16 for "Fiber enabled optical wireless communication system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,341, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Fiber enabled optical wireless communication system and method" was invented by Xiqi Gao (Nanjing, China), Chen Sun (Nanjing, China) and Jiaheng Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber enabled optical wireless communication (FE-OWC) system and method is provided. An optical antenna composed of an optical fiber transceiving port array and a lens or a reflecting mirror is used to generate optical beams in different directions, such that full-beam coverage of a communication area is implemented. The optical antenna is connected to an op...