US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "Reversed fiber detection and correction in optical transceivers" (American, Canadian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,648, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reversed fiber detection and correction in optical transceivers" was invented by Valentin Filippov (Maple, Canada), Elena Gribanova (Dublin, Calif.), Pedro Jesus Garcia Chavez (CDMX, Mexico), Wei Yan (Oakland, Calif.) and David C. White Jr. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for improved detection and correction of a polarity mismatch/swapped fiber without requiring manual intervention. The optical transceivers and methods provide improved detection and correction by determining receive (Rx) opti...