US Patent Issued to WIRELESS PHOTONICS on Aug. 26 for "Optical antenna apparatus for free-space optical communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,420, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to WIRELESS PHOTONICS LLC (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Optical antenna apparatus for free-space optical communication" was invented by Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles), Mehdi Hatamian (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Arman Rofougaran (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Milan Rofougaran (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical antenna apparatus, which has an input end, includes a lens, and the input end receives one or more incoming optical signals from one or more optical fibers. An output end of the optical antenna apparatus includes a prism at a distance from the lens, and the one or more incomi...