ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,894, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Flexible Ethernet over wireless links" was invented by Stephen Daniel Shew (Ottawa), Sebastien Gareau (Ottawa) and Petar Djukic (Nepean, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mapper includes circuitry configured to receive data streams each or which is a stream of data based on a calendar function associated with one of Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) or Metro Transport Networking (MTN); and circuitry configured to perform mapping of each of the data streams and to provide an output of the mapping to a device in a wireless data plane for transmission over one or more wi...