ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,201, issued on Oct. 14.

"Optical router for distributing optical signals" was invented by Bruno Sangle-Ferriere (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical router for distributing optical signals, including at least three input/output ports, each designed to be optic ally connected to a transceiver, each input/output port comprising an optical routing system connected to a plurality of optical paths, each of the optical paths also being connected to another of the optical routing systems so as to optically connect the input/output port to each of the other input/output ports, the optical routing system being configured to passively...