ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,542, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Dynamic lane assignment for optical modules in optical sub-systems" was invented by Rahul Taneja (Banglore, India), Alok Kumar (Banglore, India), Mana Palai (San Jose, Calif.) and Nikhil Dhar (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include an optical interface with a first set of lanes and a processing device operatively coupled to the optical interface. The processing device can perform the operations: responsive to an optical module coupling to a port of the optical interface, determining module information from the optical ...