ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,924, issued on May 27, was assigned to EZCONN Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Optical device" was invented by Chin-Tsung Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kuei Hsiang Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun Yu Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a light guide unit, an optical path conversion unit and an optical transceiver unit. The light guiding unit is connected to the optical fiber and is suitable for transmitting optical signals. The optical path conversion unit is connected to the light guide unit, and is suitable for receiving optical signals and changing the optical path of the optical signals. I...