ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,497, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Honghao Zhang (Shandong, China), Benzheng Dong (Shandong, China), Yifan Xie (Shandong, China), Kai Liu (Shandong, China), Qinhao Fu (Shandong, China), Dan Li (Shandong, China) and Tengfei Wang (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an optical module including a circuit board; a housing assembly including a light-receiving portion and a light-emitting cavity separated via a separation board and stacked one above the other, one side of the housing assemb...