US Patent Issued to CIENA on Sept. 15 for "Out-of-order read-return equalization" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,140, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Out-of-order read-return equalization" was invented by Marianne Michel Faltas (Ottawa), Peter Andreas Meyer (Almonte, Canada) and Mark Stephen Wight (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a group of ordered identification tags that are appended to a group of pending read-request operations generated by a leader process and requesting a return of read data from a group of follower processes. A group of read-return operations including the group of ordered identification tags is intercepted and i...