ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,982, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for indicating fault status" was invented by Desheng Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Li Ding (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and an apparatus are provided for indicating a fault status. The method includes: a first device determines N alignment marker AM groups, where the N AM groups include first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate a fault status of R receiving logical lanes of the first device, and each of the N AM groups includes M pieces of alignment marker group l...