ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,842, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER (Blagnac, France) and CAILABS (Rennes, France).

"Device for connecting, by reallocation of transmission channels, to an on-board passive fibre multiplexed communication network for an aircraft" was invented by Sebastien Le Gall (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Christophe Berterottiere (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Bertrand Denolle (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for connection to an on-board multiplexed network of communication by multi-mode optical fibers for an aircraft, the device comprising a first optical component for modifying the spatial profile...