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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2012
Applicants:

Oliver W Saunders, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Russell Kadota, Huntington Beach, CA (US);

Inventors:

Oliver W Saunders, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Russell Kadota, Huntington Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/02 (2006.01); H04B 10/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment is a Poisson-based communication system. The system includes a receiver that comprises a photodetector that receives photons and generates pulses based on the received photons, a sampling event counter that counts the number of generated pulses by the photodetector and a demodulator. The demodulator samples the sampling event counter at predetermined time intervals to determine an occurrence of a first state when light pulse energy has been transmitted by a transmitter and received by the photodetector and an occurrence of a second state when light pulse energy has not been transmitted by the transmitter and received by the photodetector.


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