US Patent Issued to TAARA CONNECT on March 31 for "Integrated on-chip wireless optical communication terminal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,772, issued on March 31, was assigned to TAARA CONNECT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Integrated on-chip wireless optical communication terminal" was invented by Baris Ibrahim Erkmen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Devin Brinkley (Redwood City, Calif.), Paul Epp (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Moody (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free-space optical communication system includes an optical phased array (OPA) photonic integrated chip, a transceiver photonic integrated chip, and one or more processors. The OPA chip includes a plurality of array elements and a plurality of phase shifters. The transceiver chip includes one or more trans...