ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,707, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data stream processing method and apparatus" was invented by Weijun Le (Dongguan, China) and Xiang He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes periodically inserting another AM into a data stream (DS) to obtain a second DS, and the first data stream includes a first alignment marker (AM); sending the second DS through physical lanes (PLs), where a quantity of the PLs is not equal to 2n, where the second AM's insertion period and each second AM's size is based on condition 1 or 2, where condition 1 is the quantity of the PLs, where...