ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,631, issued on June 16, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Systems and methods for optimization of transmission signal quality in point-to-multipoint networks" was invented by Thomas Duthel (Nuremberg, Germany), Amir Rashidinejad (Kanata, Canada), Christopher R.S. Fludger (Nuremberg, Germany) and Steven Joseph Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for optimizing signal quality in an optical network having two or more hub nodes continuously outputting optical signals to a plurality of leaf nodes. Each of the plurality of leaf nodes may receive a combined optical signal from the h...