ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,688, issued on July 14, was assigned to NxGen Partners IP LLC (Dallas).
"Application of orbital angular momentum to Fiber, FSO and RF" was invented by Solyman Ashrafi (Plano, Texas) and Roger Linquist (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system includes transmitter circuit for receiving a plurality of input data streams and applying a different orthogonal function to each of the plurality of input data streams. The transmitter circuit processes each of the plurality of input data streams having the different orthogonal function applied thereto to spatially locate a first group of the plurality of input data streams...