ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,342, issued on May 12, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for transmitting Laguerre-Gaussian beams using multi-uniform circular antenna, method for receiving Laguerre-Gaussian beams. and communication system using multi-uniform circular antenna" was invented by Joonhyuk Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Hoon Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Uk Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a communication system using a multi-uniform circular antenna. The system may include a transmission apparatus including at least one of transmission-side mul...