US Patent Issued to Ciena on Nov. 3 for "Communication systems having pluggable optical modules" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,196, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Fulton, Md.).

"Communication systems having pluggable optical modules" was invented by Christopher Robert Cole (Redwood City, Calif.) and Peter Johannes Winzer (Aberdeen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing capable of being mounted in a rack, and a vertically oriented switch card. The vertically oriented switch card includes one or more vertically oriented application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) mounted on the vertically oriented switch card. The switch card includes a two-dimensional arrangement of plug ports; each plug port is configured to r...