US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on July 21 for "Optical communication device with optical slip ring" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,437, issued on July 21, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Optical communication device with optical slip ring" was invented by Ethan Karl Christian Baltz (Palatine, Ill.) and Justin Stewart Grayer (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical data transmission device for providing optical signals containing information data between avionics systems in an aircraft. A fixed optical transceiver array at a first side of a slip ring is in optical communication with a revolving optical transceiver array positioned at a second side of the slip ring. A set of mirrors coated with dielectric m...