US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 14 for "Remapping reference codes in pluggable modules to support different applications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,880, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Remapping reference codes in pluggable modules to support different applications" was invented by Eric Maniloff (Woodlawn, Canada), Munjeen Khan (Ottawa), Rahim Amarsi (Ottawa), Martin Bluethner (Ottawa), Ian Alderdice (Ottawa) and Avid Lemus (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pluggable module includes a media interface including a receiver and a transmitter, wherein the media interface is configured to operate a media interface mode defined by a code; circuitry communicatively coupled to the media interface; and an electrical interface communicatively ...