ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,181, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical fiber connection detection method and related device" was invented by Zhiquan Liao (Dongguan, China) and Zhiqiang Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application disclose an optical fiber connection detection method and a related device. A first network device obtains first label information, which indicates a target optical output interface, and the target optical output interface is one of at least one optical output interface of the first network device; the first network device generates a...