US Patent Issued to CIENA on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for detecting and/or identifying objects" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,727, issued on April 21, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and apparatus for detecting and/or identifying objects" was invented by Brandon Taylor Buscaino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mohammad Ebrahim Mousa Pasandi (Ottawa) and Kim Byron Roberts (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, creating a first sequence of optical signals based on a first sequence of electrical signals, the first sequence of electrical signals associated with a plurality of matched filters, directing the first sequence of optical signals to a plurality of objects, receiving a second sequence...