US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 23 for "Angled and stepped faceplate for telecommunications and networking shelf and circuit packs" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,576, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Angled and stepped faceplate for telecommunications and networking shelf and circuit packs" was invented by Daniel Rivaud (Ottawa), Spencer Giacalone (Ottawa), Fabien Colton (Kars, Canada), Simon Shearman (Carleton Place, Canada), Peter Ajersch (Ottawa) and Behazad Mohajer (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf system for use in a telecommunications or networking application, the shelf system including a shelf assembly and a circuit pack conformally inserted into the shelf assembly. The circuit pack includes a printed circuit board disposed in an enclosure, ...