US Patent Issued to Ciena on Aug. 11 for "Precisely capturing time of an event in processing circuitry of an optical module" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,684, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Precisely capturing time of an event in processing circuitry of an optical module" was invented by Andrew McCarthy (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a receiver configured to receive an optical signal, and processing circuitry configured to obtain data associated with the optical signal, periodically generate a reference signal, at a first point in the processing circuitry, each reference signal has an associated time, detect a significant event requiring a timestamp at a second point in the processing circuitry, and utili...