ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,260, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Centralized light supply apparatus" was invented by Ningfeng Tang (Shenzhen, China), Yingchun Shang (Shenzhen, China), Xun Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Bing Ye (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a centralized light supply apparatus, including: a controller, at least one light source pool, and a plurality of CPO switches. The controller is connected with the light source pool and the plurality of CPO switches through a two-way communication channel, and the light source pool is connected with the plurality of CP...