ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,541, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Adaptive bundling for capacity changes in channel holder based optical links" was invented by Choudhury A. Al Sayeed (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive bundling of capacity changes in an optical section includes, responsive to a request for a capacity change for a plurality of channels on an optical section, determining spectral loading of the optical section; determining a bundling of changes for the capacity change based on the spectral loading of the optical section; and performing the capacity change based on the bundling. The bundling in...