ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,686, issued on July 14, was assigned to INNOLIGHT TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) LTD. (Suzhou, China).
"Single-fiber bidirectional optical assembly" was invented by Yu-Zhou Sun (Suzhou, China) and Hua-zhong Lin (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-fiber bidirectional optical assembly includes an optical emitter, an optical receiver, a lens assembly, a first filter, a second filter, an optical power attenuator, and an optical fiber interface end. The optical fiber interface end is used for being connected to an optical fiber, a downlink optical signal emitted by the optical emitter is focused by the lens assembly and is then em...