Expendable airborne fiber optic link

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11851211
APP PUB NO 20220234758A1
SERIAL NO

17511509

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Aspects of the present disclosure are related unmanned aerial vehicles tethered to ground stations with an expendable airborne fiber-optic link. The tethers may be fiber-optic cables that can be used as a communications conduit between a ground station and a UAV for providing vehicle positioning/control information to the UAV as well as transmitting a large amount of information/data to the UAV. As the information being transmitted between to the UAV the ground station is critical, fiber-optic cables provide the bandwidth and transmission capabilities required with the added benefit of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio-frequency interference (RFI) immunity, making this an ideal solution for these applications.

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SANMINA CORPORATION2700 NORTH FIRST STREET SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Castleberry, Walter Thomas Hampton Cove, US 2 7
Klein, Max Edward Huntsville, US 7 102
Porter, David Huntsville, US 85 3004

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