US Patent Issued to New Jersey Institute of Technology on July 28 for "System and method of high-speed wireless communications using reflected laser light" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,508, issued on July 28, was assigned to New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, N.J.).

"System and method of high-speed wireless communications using reflected laser light" was invented by Roberto Rojas-Cessa (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Paa Kwesi Esubonteng (Irvington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a drone-assisted and non-drone assisted NLoS-FSOC network and method for high-speed communications in disaster-struck areas or where there is little or no communications. NLoS-FSOC uses a diffuse reflector that is in LoS of a transmitter and receiver for establishing a broadcast optical channel. NLoS-FSOC establishes uplink...