ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,704, issued on July 14, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"High-capacity channel for higher speed passive optical networks" was invented by Rainer Strobel (Munich) and Vladimir Oksman (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an embodiment, an optical line terminal (OLT) configured for downstream transmission in a passive optical network (PON) may comprise a processing device and a transceiver. The processing device may be configured to: generate a first downstream signal for transmission on a first channel at a first signal level, and generate a second downstream signal for transmis...