ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,633, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Optical network unit, optical line terminal and method, device and medium for communication" was invented by Xiao Feng Hu (Shanghai), Dong Xu Zhang (Shanghai), Xiao An Huang (Shanghai) and Kai Bin Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical network unit is configured to send a plurality of optical signals with different wavelengths to an optical line terminal. The optical signals in the plurality of optical signals carry indicating information. The indicating information is used to indicate the wavelength serial number of the opti...