ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,183, 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: "Methods and systems for determining a receive signal quality of a new subcarrier group in an optical network, including a system in which each leaf node may report a current transmission output power to a hub node when it is determined that a receive signal quality of each of...