ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,850, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Xuming Wu (Wuhan, China) and Chengxian Luo (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding configuration method includes an optical network unit that receives first information, where the first information indicates a change amount of forward error correction codeword information relative to first forward error correction mother code. The optical network unit determines the forward error correction codeword information based on the first information. According to technical sol...