ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,357, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical signal amplification apparatus and related optical communication device" was invented by Yongze Yu (Dongguan, China), Hengyun Jiang (Chengdu, China) and Bo Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical signal amplification apparatus and a related optical communication device. The apparatus may include a pump light source, a combiner assembly, a doped optical fiber, and an optical filter. The pump light source may be configured to emit a pump beam. The combiner assembly is configured to combine a signal beam and the pump be...