US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 31 for "User-selectable optical interface" (Canadian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,776, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User-selectable optical interface" was invented by Jock T. Bovington (Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany), Mark C. Nowell (Ottawa), Thomas J. Williams (Sudbury, Mass.), Matthew J. Traverso (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gary Nicholl (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and devices described provide for a user selectable CPO interface for both duplex and parallel optical network interfaces. The systems include a pluggable optical device with a laser source subassembly, an internal optical connector, a plurality of laser source optical paths connecti...