US Patent Issued to Infinera on May 5 for "Fast and reliable inter-network element optical protection switching" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,237, issued on May 5, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Fast and reliable inter-network element optical protection switching" was invented by Dharmendra Kalita (San Jose, Calif.), Kapil Juneja (Karnataka, India), Ashok Kunjidhapatham (Devarachikkanahalli, India) and Pardeep Kumar Reddy Buyanni (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are optical networks and nodes, including a head-end node comprising a controller and a line module. The line module comprises a first processor and first memory storing instructions that when executed by the first processor cause the first processor to receive fault information, ge...