US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Sept. 1 for "Optical node architectures for optical communication systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,741, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Optical node architectures for optical communication systems" was invented by Mijail Szczerban Gonzalez (North Plainfield, N.J.), John E. Simsarian (Highland Park, N.J.), Roland Ryf (Aberdeen, N.J.) and Colin Kelly (Hubbards, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments of optical nodes may be configured to support improved connectivity between optical fibers and/or cores of optical fibers connected to the optical nodes based on use of various optical cross-connect architectures within the optical nodes. Various example emb...