US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 1 for "Laser-induced artificial ionosphere communications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,278, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Laser-induced artificial ionosphere communications" was invented by Scott C. McGirr (San Diego) and Ronald J. Wroblewski (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising the steps of: using laser pulses to produce a surface pattern of ionization filaments that serve as a first ion plasma reflector in open air at a first location; and reflecting radio frequency (RF) signals off of the first ion plasma reflector."

The patent was filed on March 26, 2016, under Application No. 14/998,826.

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