ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,606, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Universal sub slot architecture for networking modules" was invented by Marc Leclair (Gatineau, Canada), Mitchell O'Leary (Ottawa), Nicola Benvenuti (Kanata, Canada), James McGale (Kanata, Canada), Daniel Rivaud (Ottawa) and Sheldon Button (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host module configured for insertion into a chassis of a network element includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB); a plurality of rails disposed on the PCB, for housing one or more universal sub slot modules on the host module, wherein the plurality of rails are for guiding a universa...