ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,957, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical element, optical element monitoring system and method, active light emitting module, and terminal" was invented by Bin Shi (Shenzhen, China), Wei Tang (Shanghai), Xiaogang Song (Shenzhen, China) and Bing Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element, an optical element monitoring system, and a method monitor in real time whether an optical element such as a diffractive optical element or a diffuser in an active light emitting module is damaged or falls off, and turn off a laser when the optical element is damage...