US Patent Issued to CIENA on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for spatial diversity schemes in free-space optical communications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,271, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and apparatus for spatial diversity schemes in free-space optical communications" was invented by Brandon Taylor Buscaino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mohammad Ebrahim Mousa Pasandi (Ottawa), Kim Byron Roberts (Ottawa) and Ian Roberts (Sandy Springs, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, via one or more spatially distinct receivers, a plurality of transmitted optical signals associated with a spatially-diverse optical communication link, forming an optical signal based on a combinatio...