US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Coherent optics channel discovery and programmability for optical networks" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,691, issued on July 14, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coherent optics channel discovery and programmability for optical networks" was invented by Randy Zhang (Manassas, Va.), Stefano Binetti (Monza, Italy), Dirk Schroetter (Frisco, Texas) and Valerio Viscardi (Paderno Dugnano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example embodiment, a wavelength of a first network node is identified for communication over a network with a second network node by sweeping wavelengths of the second network node. A wavelength of the second network node is adjusted based on the wavelength of the first network node to al...