ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,592, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to YANSHAN UNIVERSITY (Qinhuangdao, China).

"Polarization-maintaining dispersion-compensation microstructure fiber" was invented by Wei Wang (Qinhuangdao, China), Man Yang (Qinhuangdao, China), Chang Zhao (Qinhuangdao, China), Xiaochen Kang (Qinhuangdao, China), Hongda Yang (Qinhuangdao, China) and Wenchao Li (Qinhuangdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarization-maintaining dispersion-compensation microstructure fiber includes an inner core, an air-hole array in area 1 and an air-hole array in area 2. The air holes in the area 1 and 2 air-hole arrays are arranged in square lattice. The...