US Patent Issued to Infinera on March 3 for "API based inter-node control plane communication infrastructure" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,906, issued on March 3, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"API based inter-node control plane communication infrastructure" was invented by Ashok Kunjidhapatham (Devarachikkanahalli, India), Rajan Rao (Fremont, Calif.), Snigdho Bardalai (San Ramon, Calif.), Pradeep Kumar Reddy Buyanni (San Jose, Calif.) and Kapil Juneja (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an optical node comprising an FRU and a controller. The FRU comprises a module processor and a module memory storing a control plane application (CPA) executable by the module processor. The controller comprises an interface, a contr...