ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,921, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System, method, and apparatus for device control based on optical communication" was invented by Gang Zheng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a system for device control based on optical communication. A device supporting optical communication is introduced into a conventional system for device control. The system includes a first controller, a first optical head-end, a first optical terminal, and a first field device. The first controller communicates with the first field device through the first optical h...