US Patent Issued to ADTRAN NETWORKS on June 23 for "Optical communication link with remote optically pumped amplifier" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,670, issued on June 23, was assigned to ADTRAN NETWORKS SE (Meiningen OT Dreissigacker, Germany).

"Optical communication link with remote optically pumped amplifier" was invented by Rapp Lutz (Munivh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional optical communication link, OCL, (1) comprising a first optical transmission link, OTL1, adapted to transmit an optical signal from a near-end location (NEL) via a first optical fiber (2-1) to a remote-end location (REL); and a second optical transmission link, OTL2, adapted to transmit an optical signal from the remote-end location (REL) via a second optical fiber (2-2) to the near...