ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,277, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AuthenX Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Optical fiber network device and optical fiber optic signal transmission method" was invented by Sheng-Fu Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Po-Kuan Shen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Chiang Yen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Lu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jun-Rong Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jenq-Yang Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Mao-Jen Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber network device includes a fiber and a photonic integrated circuit. Fiber receives a first optical signal and transmits a second optical sig...