US Patent Issued to Infinera on May 26 for "Systems and methods for configurable lane mapping for muxponder modules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,831, issued on May 26, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for configurable lane mapping for muxponder modules" was invented by Steven Joseph Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.), Norman Swenson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeng Rong Yeh (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically configuring a muxponder. One exemplary system may be provided with a muxponder module deployed in an optical network, the muxponder having an optical receiver, a first and a second electrical port, a demultiplexer having a built-in digital cross-connect, and a processor acc...