US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 7 for "Quality of service (QOS) method and system for free space optics (FSO) communications" (District Of Columbia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,613, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Quality of service (QOS) method and system for free space optics (FSO) communications" was invented by Josh Benjamin Buen (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices to realize Quality of Service (QoS) in a Free Space Optics (FSO) communications link. In operation, the application generating the data source assigns a QoS value to each data packet for optical transmission. The FSO system converts this value to a QoS metric based on the capability of the system...