ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,599, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for monitoring non-linear effects along an optical communication line" was invented by Zhiping Jiang (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring non-linear effects along an optical communication line transmitting an optical signal, the optical signal being formed from a plurality of sub-signals, each sub-signal being carried over a corresponding wavelength of a plurality of wavelengths. The method includes modulating, by a power dither, an optical power of a first set of sub-signals among...