ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,662, issued on March 17, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and system for mitigating adverse effects of a gas absorption line in coherent optical communication systems" was invented by Maurice O'Sullivan (Ottawa), Douglas Charlton (Kanata, Canada), Mohammad Ebrahim Mousa Pasandi (Ottawa), Charles Laperle (Richmond, Canada), Kim Byron Roberts (Ottawa) and Michael Reimer (Sittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a detector configured to identify a narrow-band absorption occurring within a signal spectrum of an optical signal propa...