ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,182, issued on June 23, 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 an optical signal in an optical network having a leaf node with a coherent optical transceiver configured to receive an optical signal continuously transmitted at a first output power from a hub node over a link. The lea...