US Patent Issued to 1FINITY on Aug. 4 for "Margin alert for an optical network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,345, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Margin alert for an optical network" was invented by David Dal Farra (Richardson, Texas), Quang Tieu (Richardson, Texas), David Terwilliger (Garland, Texas) and Catherine Yuan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method leveraging service margin aware thresholds of optical alerts within an optical communication network line system is provided. The method includes determining an optical margin for a service provided between a source transponder and a destination transponder through an Optical Line System (OLS). The communication method inclu...