ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,715, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Ltd. (Kanata, Canada) and Universite Laval (Quebec, Canada).

"Optical fiber amplifier for reducing differential modal gain of an optical fiber" was invented by Sophie Larochelle (Quebec, Canada), Charles Matte-Breton (Quebec, Canada), Pierre-Olivier Janvier (Levis, Canada), Leslie Ann Rusch (Quebec, Canada) and Lixian Wang (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber and an optical amplifier including the optical fiber are disclosed, the optical fiber includes a core region for guiding a propagation of a multimode optical signal, a cladding regi...