ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,015, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Clock frequency synchronization method and communication apparatus" was invented by Yuanda Huang (Dongguan, China) and Kuo Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, a network device receives a combined optical signal, where the combined optical signal is obtained by coupling optical signals sent by a plurality of communication nodes. If the network device is not a master node, the network device detects whether a master label exists in the combined optical signal, where the master label indicates the master node. If it is...