ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,042, issued on June 16, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Optical wireless communication system" was invented by Haimin Tao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Karnekumar Arulandu (Breda, Netherlands) and Amir Masood Khalid (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical wireless communications transmitter comprising a laser diode (82) such as vertical cavity surface emitting laser, VCSEL, a bias current delivery circuit (85) for delivering a bias current to the VCSEL, a modulator (81) for injecting a modulation current to the VCSEL superposed with the bias current and a temperature sensor for se...