ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,269, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Single-fiber bidirectional optical transmission apparatus, wavelength division multiplexing device, and optical transmission system" was invented by Wei Liu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-fiber bidirectional optical transmission apparatus, a wavelength division multiplexing device, and an optical transmission system, is disclosed. The single-fiber bidirectional optical transmission apparatus includes: a first single-light-source coherent optical transceiver, configured to: receive a first optical signal from a first multiple...