ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,696, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Ming Li (Wuhan, China), Wenzhe Liao (Wuhan, China) and Jun Feng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an optical module, including a light passing hole, an optical splitter, an optical imaging apparatus, and an optical apparatus, where light entering from the light passing hole is incident on the optical splitter; the optical splitter is configured to split the incident light into two parts, one part of the light enters the optical imaging apparatus, and the other part of the li...