ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,705, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical signal amplification apparatus and method" was invented by Qiang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Rui Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Xiaofan Ji (Tianjin, China) and Lin Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical signal amplification apparatus includes a power detection module, a pump control module, and a Raman amplification module. The power detection module is configured to detect power of each of a plurality of G wavelength channels in each of a plurality of N spatial dimensions, and send power configuration information to the pum...