ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,762, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TAARA CONNECT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Phase shifter for low optical loss in optical communications systems" was invented by Simon Bilodeau (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide phase shifters as well as systems and methods in which those phase shifters may be utilized. For instance, a system may include a first communications terminal. The first optical communications terminal may include an optical phased array (OPA) architecture including a plurality of phase shifters configured to receive an optical communications beam from a second communic...