ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,677, issued on June 23, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).

"Real-time vector analysis method and device for detecting optical signal with bandwidth greater than 1 THz" was invented by Chi Zhang (Wuhan, China), Xinliang Zhang (Wuhan, China), Lun Li (Wuhan, China), Yuchong Cai (Wuhan, China), Yaoshuai Li (Wuhan, China) and Chen Liu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time vector analysis method for detecting an optical signal with a bandwidth greater than 1 THz includes: mapping, by a time-lens focusing system, a spectrum of a signal under test to different temporal location in...