ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,713, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Wavelength selective switch" was invented by Bifeng Ding (Wuhan, China), Ying Shangguan (Wuhan, China) and Yonghong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength selective switch includes an optical fiber array, a multiplexing/demultiplexing component, and a transmission direction adjustment component. The optical fiber array includes a first optical fiber and at least one second optical fiber. The first offset is used to compensate for a second offset of a diffraction spectrum generated when a plurality of single-wavelength op...