US Patent Issued to Infinera on March 17 for "Out-of-band communication channel for subcarrier-based optical communication systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,657, issued on March 17, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Out-of-band communication channel for subcarrier-based optical communication systems" was invented by Steven J. Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a hub transceiver and a plurality of edge transceivers. The hub transceiver is operable to transmit, over a first communications channel, a first message to each of the edge transceivers concurrently, including an indication of available network resources on an optical communications network. Each of the edge transceiver is operable to transmit, transmit, over a seco...