US Patent Issued to XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on July 29 for "Lightweight scalable multi-user optical antenna and communication method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,175, issued on July 29, was assigned to XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shaanxi, China).

"Lightweight scalable multi-user optical antenna and communication method" was invented by Xiaoping Xie (Shaanxi, China), Xinning Huang (Shaanxi, China), Wei Wang (Shaanxi, China) and Yiyi Zhao (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight scalable multi-user optical antenna includes a coarse tracking liquid crystal, an optical filter, a beam shrinking system, a fine tracking liquid crystal and a beam splitter which are arranged in sequence and are located on a same central axis; furt...