US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on Jan. 20 for "Optical transmission system and data communication system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,842, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Optical transmission system and data communication system" was invented by Sai Chen (Beijing), Chongjin Xie (Morganville, N.J.), Huan Zhang (Beijing), Liang Dou (Beijing) and Rui Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transmission system is provided. The optical transmission system includes a first board card including a multiplexer/demultiplexer, and an optical amplifier. The multiplexer/demultiplexer is configured to receive a plurality of first split optical signals and combine the received plurality of first split optical signals i...