US Patent Issued to The Boeing, California Institute of Technology on July 1 for "Optical communications system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,253, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Optical communications system" was invented by Jeffrey H. Hunt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Fatemeh Aghlmand (Pasadena, Calif.) and Azita Emami (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive receiver comprising a current buffer, an inverter-based transimpedance that receives input from the current buffer, an average current control loop that feeds back from the inverter-based transimpedance to the current buffer, a variable gain circuit that receives input from the inverter-based transimpedance, a diffe...