ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,251, issued on July 14, was assigned to InnoLight Technology PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Optical module and assembly method thereof" was invented by Zhanwei Wang (Suzhou, China) and Kewu Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a housing, a printed circuit board, an optical assembly, an optical interface joined with the optical assembly, the printed circuit board, the optical assembly, and the optical interface being disposed in the housing, an adapter to be mated with an external optical connector and disposed on an end of the housing, and first and second connecting part disposed on the adapter and ...