US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for equalization in PON" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,816, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for equalization in PON" was invented by Yannick Lefevre (Heverlee, Belgium), Michiel Verplaetse (Nazareth, Belgium) and Wouter Lanneer (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an apparatus, comprising means for: determining a rate for a received signal in a passive optical network, PON; selecting, based on the determined rate, a set of coefficients for an equalizer from a plurality of predetermined sets of coefficients for the equalizer, wherein, the plurality of predetermined sets res...