ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,811, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical amplification apparatus, and mode division multiplexing system including optical amplification apparatus" was invented by Qiang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Rui Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Zhiqun Yang (Tianjin, China), Tao Xu (Tianjin, China), Yaping Liu (Tianjin, China) and Lin Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an optical amplification apparatus are disclosed which include a first optical amplifier, a second optical amplifier, and a mode exchanger. The first optical amplifier is connected to an input port of th...