US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Fused fiber-optic tapers in optical wireless receivers and method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,592, issued on June 23, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Fused fiber-optic tapers in optical wireless receivers and method" was invented by Boon S. Ooi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Omar Alkhazragi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Abderrahmen Trichili (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Islam Ashry (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Tien Khee Ng (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compounded light-focusing optical element is configured to focus light, and the compounded light-focusing optical element includes a body having a first, flat, end face ...