US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on July 21 for "Multi-rate burst-mode receiver" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,848, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Multi-rate burst-mode receiver" was invented by Michiel Verplaetse (Nazareth, Belgium) and Yannick Lefevre (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments describe an optical line terminal, OLT, configured to communicate in a passive optical network with one or more optical network units, ONUs. Optical burst signals transmitted by the one or more ONUs have respective symbol rates. The optical line terminal includes a burst-mode receiver configured to decode an optical burst signal from an ONU to a decoded output signal by ...