ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,053, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical path pointing apparatus, optical path pointing method, and optical path pointing system" was invented by Ying Li (Dongguan, China), Zhipeng Xie (Dongguan, China) and Yan Zeng (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first optical path pointing apparatus includes a first optical transceiver, a first position sensitive detector, and a first adjuster. The first optical transceiver is configured to transmit a first beacon light to a second optical path pointing apparatus and configured to receive the first beacon light ...