US Patent Issued to Molex on June 23 for "Reconfigurable optical add and drop multiplexer system with integrated wavelength selective switch array" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,693, issued on June 23, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Reconfigurable optical add and drop multiplexer system with integrated wavelength selective switch array" was invented by Minchun Li (Plano, Texas), Gongjian Hu (Marina, Calif.), Lifu Gong (San Jose, Calif.) and Feng Qing Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable optical add and drop multiplexer (ROADM) system is provided. The ROADM system may include a switching system which includes at least one first WSS optically coupled to a tapping coupler and configured to receive an input optical signal from a first circulator, transmit a drop optic...