ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,443, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and optical module" was invented by Zengchao Yan (Shenzhen, China), Wai Kong Raymond Leung (Shenzhen, China) and Huixiao Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method, a decoding method, and an optical module are described relating to data transmission technologies. The method, carried out by an optical module includes obtaining an optical transmission mode used for signal transmission. The method further includes receiving a signal on which outer-code encoding has been performed. The opti...