US Patent Issued to Ciena on May 12 for "Integrated retractable guidance assembly for deep recessed pluggable optical modules" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,098, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Integrated retractable guidance assembly for deep recessed pluggable optical modules" was invented by Jennifer Ashley Trac (Nepean, Canada), Victor Aldea (Ottawa), Trevor Meunier (Kemptville, Canada), Kamran Rahmani (Kanata, Canada), Mitchell O'Leary (Ottawa), Yannick Brisebois (Nepean, Canada) and Cindy Lee (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated retractable guidance assembly for guiding insertion of a pluggable optical module into a pluggable optical module cage through an opening in a faceplate of a module, the guidance assembly including: a bu...