US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Managing power in a wavelength division multiplexing system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,841, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing power in a wavelength division multiplexing system" was invented by Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Andrew Gerald Crimmins (Montrose, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller maps a plurality of client-side traffic ports to a plurality of line-side optical ports of a wavelength division multiplexing system, that are operatively coupled to at least one optical long haul link. The controller determines idle traffic overhead associated with ...