US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Sept. 8 for "Tuning of receiver components in an optical line terminal" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,725, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Tuning of receiver components in an optical line terminal" was invented by Michiel Verplaetse (Nazareth, Belgium) and Werner Coomans (Zellik, 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 point-to-multipoint optical network with optical network units (ONUs); where upstream burst signals originating from one or more ONUs can be received by the OLT at any time during a time window. The OLT is configured to perform, during the time window, initiating a tuning cycle...