US Patent Issued to II-VI Photonics on Aug. 5 for "Wavelength division multiplexer with multiple inputs and outputs" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,546, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to II-VI Photonics Inc. (Fuzhou, China).

"Wavelength division multiplexer with multiple inputs and outputs" was invented by Tingyu Xue (Fuzhou, China), Yang Li (Fuzhou, China), Wade Tang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lixun Chen (Fuzhou, China), Tianguo Bo (Fuzhou, China), Jiangming Lin (Fuzhou, China), Wei Wu (Fuzhou, China), Yunbing Xu (Fuzhou, China), Cart Song (Fuzhou, China) and Yihui Wang (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) includes one or more lenses, a WDM filter, and multiple common, multiple reflected and multiple transmit optical fibers optically co...