ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,634, issued on June 16, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for slicing resources in passive optical network systems" was invented by Yong Wook Ra (Daejeon, South Korea), Chansung Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hwan Seok Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are apparatus and method for slicing resources in passive optical network systems. The method includes identifying network elements included in a plurality of physical passive optical networks (pPONs), abstracting the identified network elements so that the identified ne...