US Patent Issued to Calix on Aug. 25 for "Communication in multi-wavelength passive optical networks" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,241, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Communication in multi-wavelength passive optical networks" was invented by MingCai Zhang (Nanjing, China), Tian Deng (Nanjing, China) and William Bittancourt (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for passive optical network (PON) communication includes an optical line terminal (OLT) comprising a multi-PON transceiver configurable to communicate in accordance with a first PON protocol and in accordance with a second PON protocol on a same fiber optical link, wherein, in a first configuration, the multi-PON transceiver is configured to act...