ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,669, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical module, data center system, and data transmission method" was invented by Guangcan Mi (Shenzhen, China), Ruiqiang Ji (Dongguan, China) and Zeshan Chang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module is disclosed. The optical module includes a first downlink port, a second downlink port, a directional coupler, a optical attenuator, a first photodiode (PD), and a second PD. The directional coupler, connected to the first downlink port, is configured to receive a downlink optical signal. The second PD connected to the dir...