ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,049, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical signal transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Su (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical signal transmission method and an apparatus are provided, to reduce processing complexity while maximizing bandwidth utilization. An OPUk multiplexing frame with a bit rate greater than 1.25 Gbps is constructed by using a structure of an OPU0 multiplexing frame, so that the structure of the OPU0 multiplexing frame can be reused by a structure of the OPUk multiplexing frame, and the structure of the OPUk multiplexin...