US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 16 for "Optical delay compensation in optical modules" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,040, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Optical delay compensation in optical modules" was invented by Benard J. Rhody (Ottawa), Eric S. Maniloff (Woodlawn, Canada), Will Leckie (Ottawa) and Bernard Thiboutot (Gatineau, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes a transmitter assembly; a receiver assembly; and circuitry connected to the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly, wherein the circuitry includes one or more delay elements each configured to add a respective configured amount of delay in one or more of a transmit direction and a receive direction within the optical ...