US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on May 19 for "Optical frequency comb locking for a flexible passive optical network" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,608, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Optical frequency comb locking for a flexible passive optical network" was invented by Kovendhan Vijayan (Edison, N.J.), Robert Borkowski (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Vincent Houtsma (New Providence, N.J.), Doutje Van Veen (New Providence, N.J.) and Amitkumar Mahadevan (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for providing a passive optical network (PON), supporting communications between an optical line terminal (OLT) and a set of optical network units (ONUs) of a PON, are presented. The PON may be enabled based on u...