ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,036, issued on May 5, was assigned to HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Optical module" was invented by Bangyu Yu (Qingdao, China), Mengbo Fu (Qingdao, China), Wei Cui (Qingdao, China), Kai Liu (Qingdao, China), Dan Li (Qingdao, China), Yifan Xie (Qingdao, China), Chuanbin Li (Qingdao, China), Honghao Zhang (Qingdao, China) and Feng Cui (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a circuit board, a light-emitting housing, a first optical fiber adapter, a first internal optical fiber, and an optical fiber connector. An end of the first internal optical fiber is connected ...