ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,587, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SHANGHAI XIZHI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Optically coupled multi-node computing system" was invented by Huaiyu Meng (Medford, Mass.), Yichen Shen (Cambridge, Mass.), Cheng-Kuan Lu (Littleton, Mass.) and Yelong Xu (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of nodes coupled to an optical network, each node including an optical transmitter interface configured to transmit an optical signal at a location along a coupled optical path of the optical network, and an optical receiver interface configured to receive an optical signal at a location along the c...