ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,260, issued on April 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical fiber signal mode conversion apparatus and conversion method, and optical fiber transmission system" was invented by Hanchen Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiang Yin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example optical fiber signal mode conversion apparatus includes a non-single-mode optical fiber and a single-mode optical fiber. The single-mode optical fiber forms, with the non-single-mode optical fiber, a first coupling region and a second coupling region along a signal transmission direction in the non-single-mode optical fiber...