US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Pluggable ROADM" (American, German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,098, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pluggable ROADM" was invented by Jock T. Bovington (Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany), Matthew J. Traverso (Saratoga, Calif.) and Marco Mazzini (Seville, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a pluggable module that includes a ROADM implemented in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). By implementing the ROADM in a PIC, the ROADM can be placed on smaller, pluggable modules (e.g., a Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) which can be a hot-pluggable network interface module)."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2023, under Application N...