ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,110, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Shimin Gao (Dongguan, China), Lu Cao (Shenzhen, China), Xue Yin (Shenzhen, China), Jiansi Tan (Dongguan, China) and Dada Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a housing, an optical component, and a power supply component. A second end of the housing is provided with a second socket, and the second end of the housing is an end part configured to be inserted into an optical communication device. The optical component includes a second optical connector, and the power supply component ...