US Patent Issued to Applied Optoelectronics on June 23 for "CATV hybrid fiber-coaxial network headend virtual gateway" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,780, issued on June 23, was assigned to Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"CATV hybrid fiber-coaxial network headend virtual gateway" was invented by Bao Kien (Sugar Land, Texas), Mark Siejka (Winder, Ga.), Rafael Celedon (Atlanta) and Ramesh Nallur (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for communication with radio frequency (RF) amplifiers in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network, the computer-implemented method including: providing, by one or more computer processors, return communications from one or more RF amplifiers to a headend; and providing, b...