ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,047, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical component, optical module, and communications device" was invented by Jingran Kang (Shenzhen, China), Zhiyong Xiao (Wuhan, China), Huafeng Lin (Dongguan, China), Yuanmou Li (Dongguan, China), Wei Ling (Dongguan, China) and Zhang Wei (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an optical component including a base, a light splitting structure, a first filter, and a collimation lens, where a first optical signal on a first path is incident on a light splitting surface of the first filter through a light inlet/outl...