ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,208, issued on April 7, was assigned to PURELIFI Ltd. (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
"Freeform optics for optical wireless communications" was invented by Harald Ulrich Haas (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Janis Sperga (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical wireless communications (OWC) receiver is configured for receiving light encoded with one or more data signals from one or more light sources of one or more OWC transmitters and for generating one or more electrical signals which are representative of the received light. The OWC receiver comprises a photodetector configured to generate the one or more elec...