ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,334, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving client signal in optical transport network" was invented by Wei Su (Dongguan, China), Qiuyou Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Limin Dong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a client signal in an optical transport network. In the transmission method, a received client signal is mapped into a variable-rate container OTU-N, wherein a rate of the OTU-N is N times as high as a preset reference ra...