ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,923, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical signal processing apparatus and method" was invented by Guangcan Mi (Shenzhen, China), Xu Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Yanbo Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example optical signal processing apparatuses and methods are provided. One example apparatus includes: N light sources, a wavelength multiplexer, an optical processor, a dither application circuit, a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, and a feedback control circuit. The light source generates a single-wavelength signal. The dither application circuit...