ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,611, issued on May 6, was assigned to HMN Technologies Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).
"Submarine optical cable system" was invented by Changwu Xu (Tianjin, China), Liping Ma (Tianjin, China) and Yan Wang (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide a submarine optical cable system for reducing the complexity of the submarine optical cable system. The submarine optical cable system comprises a first trunk station, a second trunk station, a branch station, first XC equipment, second OXC equipment, a trunk fiber set and a branch fiber. The trunk fiber set at least comprises a first trunk fibe...