US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 19 for "Reconfigurable intelligent free space optical communication system" (Rhode Island, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,011, issued on May 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Reconfigurable intelligent free space optical communication system" was invented by Donna L. Polehn (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Mark T. Watts (Newport, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a first plurality of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) elements. Each of the MEMS elements may include a mirror configured to reflect a radio frequency (RF) signal propagating through a free space to the mirror and whose surface orientation is configurable based on signals from a controller. The device may also include the controlle...