ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,464, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Electronic devices employing optical communications" was invented by Ravi Shankar Subramaniam (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device employing optical communications including a light cell array, each light cell individually operable to output a controllable collimated light beam, the light beams of the light cell array to form a data encoded optical output signal to transmit to a destination electronic device. A photocell array receives a data encoded optical input signal from the destination electronic device, each...