ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,818, issued on May 19, was assigned to YANSHAN UNIVERSITY (Qinhuangdao, China).

"Dispersion compensation micro-structured optical fiber" was invented by Wei Wang (Qinhuangdao, China), Chang Zhao (Qinhuangdao, China), Xiaochen Kang (Qinhuangdao, China), Hongda Yang (Qinhuangdao, China), Wenchao Li (Qinhuangdao, China), Zheng Li (Qinhuangdao, China) and Lin Shi (Qinhuangdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispersion-compensation microstructure fiber uses pure silica glass as the background material. It includes the core, the first-type defects, the second-type defects and the cladding. The air holes in the fiber cross section ar...