ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,281, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Pluggable optical transceiver module" was invented by Marc Preuss (Ottawa) and William dos Santos Fegadolli (Azusa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A QSFP-DD optical transceiver module having more than four optical data ports and more than four electrical data ports is configured for approximately 10 Gb/s bidirectional data communication on each of the data ports, and is further configured to communicatively inter-connect each of the optical data ports thereof to a corresponding one of the electrical data ports thereof. The module may be ...