ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,706, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Optical referencing from optical references with variable perturbative drift rates" was invented by Antoine Bois (Quebec, Canada), Claude Gamache (Gatineau, Canada) and Francois Pelletier (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide optical referencing in an optical system including a plurality of optical devices with variable perturbative drift rates. A method includes, subsequent to determining a tuning rate of one or more interrogator devices, which are tunable, and subsequent to locking the plurality of optical devices including the...