ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,942, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for edge wavelength selective switching" was invented by Luis Alberto Campos (Superior, Colo.), Zhensheng Jia (Superior, Colo.), Haipeng Zhang (Broomfield, Colo.), Jing Wang (Broomfield, Colo.), Junwen Zhang (Broomfield, Colo.) and Mu Xu (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength selective switch includes a first optical pathway for carrying first and second wavelengths to and from a first direction, a second optical pathway for carrying at least one wavelength to and from a second direction, a first a...