ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,979, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co. Ltd. (Qingdao, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Xinnan Wang (Qingdao, China), Dan Li (Qingdao, China), Benzheng Dong (Qingdao, China), Jiaao Zhang (Qingdao, China), Jianwei Mu (Qingdao, China) and Long Zheng (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a circuit board and a light emitting assembly. The circuit board includes a first circuit board ground line, a second circuit board ground line and a circuit board signal line. The light emitting assembly is connected to the circuit board, and the light emitting ...