ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,848, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical modulator and control method therefor" was invented by Jiangbing Du (Shenzhen, China), Haining Chong (Shenzhen, China), Weihong Shen (Shenzhen, China), Zuyuan He (Shenzhen, China) and Ningfeng Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an optical modulator and control method therefor, the optical modulator includes an input waveguide, an adjustable ring-shaped resonant cavity, a feedback loop waveguide, a first mode converter, and an output waveguide. The input waveguide is configured to receive an initial optical signal, the adjusta...