ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,459, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"High-degree reconfigurable add-drop multiplexer" was invented by Hamid Mehrvar (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a flexible node design for a high-degree ROADM is provided. In an embodiment, this design is implemented as a network node. The network node includes a plurality of optical input and a plurality of optical outputs. The network node further includes a MEMS (or other Optical Cross Connect, OXC) component and a WSS component, where each of the OXC and the WSS component has a set of inputs of the plura...