US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on May 12 for "Optical frontend for use in optical wireless communication" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,375, issued on May 12, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Optical frontend for use in optical wireless communication" was invented by Francisco David Rojas Calvente (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Paul Henricus Johannes Maria Van Voorthuisen (Sint Oedenrode, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an Optical Front-end, OFE, (400) for Optical Wireless Communication, OWC, the OFE comprising: an optical receiver with at least a photodetector (102a) and a trans-impedance amplifier, and a two-dimensional array of optical transmitters (103a) each having an individual transmitter field-of...