US Patent Issued to XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY on July 22 for "Lightweight optical antenna, and method for realizing acquisition, tracking and pointing based on same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,510, issued on July 22, was assigned to XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY (Shaanxi, China).

"Lightweight optical antenna, and method for realizing acquisition, tracking and pointing based on same" 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: "An optical antenna includes a coarse tracking liquid crystal, a coarse tracking liquid crystal controller, a beam shrinking system, a fine tracking liquid crystal, a fine tracking liquid crystal controller, a beam splitter, a first coupling syst...