ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,678, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical signal receiving apparatus, system and method, optical line terminal, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Bo Yang (Shenzhen, China), Xingang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Xingyu Lei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an optical signal receiving apparatus, an optical line terminal, an optical signal receiving system, an optical signal receiving method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The optical signal receiving apparatus is configured to receive optical signals at multiple speeds, and inclu...