ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,441, issued on May 19, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Method and device for rapidly measuring the transfer matrix of ultra-long distance fiber" was invented by Jian Wang (Hubei, China), Yize Liang (Hubei, China) and Ziyi Tang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a device for rapidly measuring the transmission matrix of an ultra-long optical fiber, belonging to the field of information optics. The solution couples the spatial mode into ultra-long few-mode/multi-mode optical fiber for transmission. By obtaining the common path reference light at the output...