US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on April 21 for "Receiver synchronization for light communications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,807, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Receiver synchronization for light communications" was invented by Jethro Reimann (Dearborn, Mich.), Michael Putty (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) and Sridhar Lakshmanan (Belleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light communication system, receiver, and method for synchronizing a receiver with a transmitter so as to decode a data input stream transmitted by the transmitter and received at the receiver. The method includes: receiving a data input stream at a receiver, the data input stream having a first data rate that is se...