ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,768, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ANHUI LANXUAN PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Motors with built-in optical fiber communication" was invented by Lujuan Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a motor with built-in optical fiber communication, including a slip ring section and a driving section, wherein the driving section has a rotationally mounted driving shaft, the slip ring section has a stator unit and a rotor unit, and the driving shaft and the rotor unit are arranged along a centerline of the driving shaft and are fixedly connected."

The patent wa...