US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on June 2 for "Network node" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,184, issued on June 2, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Network node" was invented by Marco Menchetti (London), Liam Bussey (London) and Fraser Burton (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a network node comprising: an optical fibre interface configured to receive, from one or more remote optical sources, a first optical signal, a second optical signal and a third optical signal, wherein the first, second and third optical signals each have a respective wavelength within an optical fibre transmission band being one of the O-band, E-band, S-band, C-band, L-band, and U/XL-band; one or mo...