ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,392, issued on May 12, was assigned to GENOPSYS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Optical virtual-circuit-switching network system and optical switch thereof" was invented by Chi-Jui Maria Yuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shan Zhong (Clarksville, Md.), Po-Lung Tien (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Tien-Chien Lin (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical virtual-circuit-switching network system and optical switches thereof are provided. The optical virtual-circuit-switching network system includes multiple optical switches. Each optical switch includes an optical outbound handling module, an optical pass around module, and an opti...