ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,251, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optical link power profile estimation" was invented by Inwoong Kim (Richardson, Texas), Olga I. Vassilieva (Richardson, Texas), Ryu Shinzaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Motohiko Eto (Richardson, Texas), Shoichiro Oda (Kawasaki, Japan) and Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include obtaining a first waveform profile corresponding to an optical signal received at an optical receiver via an optical link between the optical receiver and an optical transmitter. The operations may also in...