US Patent Issued to United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Jan. 13 for "Multi-directional optical communications system and method with turbulence mitigation using homodyne encoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,046, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Multi-directional optical communications system and method with turbulence mitigation using homodyne encoding" was invented by Kyle Robert Drexler (San Diego), Burton Hamilton Neuner III (San Diego), Skylar Darious Jones Lilledahl (San Diego) and Benjamin Laxton (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention include free-space optical communication systems and methods employing homodyne encoding on the receiver sides of the terminals that are configured to mitigate optical degrada...