ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,836, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Receiver device, reception system, process and light-signal communication method" was invented by Nicolas Moeneclaey (Vourey, France), Vratislav Michal (Fontanil-Cornillon, France) and Jean-Luc Patry (Crolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a light-signal communication receiver device including a photo-receiving diode configured to generate a current signal on a first node from a received light signal, a preamplifier configured to convert the...