US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on June 2 for "Flexible backbone network for high-speed optical wireless communication" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,182, issued on June 2, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Flexible backbone network for high-speed optical wireless communication" was invented by Andries Van Wageningen (Wijlre, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backbone network (100) for use in an optical wireless communication system comprises one or more local switches (200) and one or more optical access points (300), APs, wherein local switches (200) are configured to provide to optical APs (300) connections to an external network. Each local switch (200) comprises a first type optical front end (210), OFE, having a rotatable orientation a...