ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,196, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Messaging channel in a coherent optical DSP frame" was invented by Sebastien Gareau (Ottawa) and Timothy James Creasy (Manotick, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving (102) a plurality of symbols that are part of a defined Digital Signal Processing (DSP) frame for coherent optical communication, wherein the DSP frame structure has a messaging channel incorporated therein that includes a subset of the plurality of symbols; capturing (104) multiple samples of the messaging channel; and determining (106) a message in the messaging ...