ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,346, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Separately managed network entity with virtualized transport function" was invented by Steven Joseph Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.), Vasudha Bhaskara (Milpitas, Calif.), Mika Silvola (Kempele, Finland), Dirk Corsus (Saratoga, Calif.), Mats Plantare (Stockholm), Per Lembre (Stockholm) and David F. Welch (Atheerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations for remotely managing an optical transceiver connected to a network device and optical network is described. A user can use a network device controller and optical transceiver controller in a remote server to communicate w...