US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Flexible forwarded clocking architecture for dense wavelength division multiplexing systems" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,674, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Flexible forwarded clocking architecture for dense wavelength division multiplexing systems" was invented by Sanquan Song (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Nikola Nedovic (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas Hastings Greer III (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Carl Thomas Gray (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dense wave division multiplex (DWDM) receiver includes receiver lanes each configured to detect signals encoded in a different electromagnetic frequency band. The DWDM receiver applies a clock signal received on a variable one of the receiver lanes to lock a frequen...