ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,054, issued on May 5, was assigned to AALYRIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Adaptive coding such as for free-space optical communication systems" was invented by Paul Daniel Heninwolf (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to adaptive coding of digital communications, such as for a free-space optical channel. Some implementations can transmit, via a first transceiver over a communications channel, a first series of data packets to a second transceiver. The first transceiver can receive a second series of data packets from the second transceiver, and an adaptive coder can an...