ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,702, issued on June 17, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Optical module and erbium-doped fiber amplifier" was invented by Hai-Feng Lv (Zhuhai, China), Feng-Qing Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), Gui-Jun Ji (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhong-Sheng Wang (Zhuhai, China) and Da-Xin Chen (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes an optical fiber component, a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filter, at least one isolator, a mirror and an optical detecting component. The optical fiber component, the WDM filter, the at least one isolator, the mirror and the optical detecting component are configured to prevent a s...