ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,634, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Wireless Photonics LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"System and method of optical base station(s) and autonomous wireless hotspot device(s)" was invented by Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles), Nicholas Jalali (Los Angeles), William R Ryan (Los Angeles) and Ahmadreza Rofougaran (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical power and data delivery system includes an optical base station and an autonomous wireless hotspot device. The optical base station includes routers, a media converter device, a optical data transceiver configured to transmit the received data laser light beam; one or more ...