ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,618, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Source Photonics (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for multiplexing and demultiplexing optical signals configured to suppress the four-wave mixing effect" was invented by Yi Hao (Chengdu, China), Lihui Zhuang (Chengdu, China) and Lulu Sun (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical multiplexers, optical demultiplexers, optical transmitters including the optical multiplexers, optical modules including the optical transmitters and the optical demultiplexers, and methods of using the same are disclosed. The optical multiplexers include first and second beam c...