US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Dec. 16 for "Optical selective switch and node apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,614, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical selective switch and node apparatus" was invented by Yong Wang (Shanghai), Tenghao Li (Shenzhen, China) and Hui Xiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical selective switch includes N input ports, M output ports, an input passive deflection element, an input active deflection element, an output passive deflection element, and an output active deflection element. Each input port is configured to receive input light. Each output port is configured to output to-be-output light from the output port. The input passive def...