ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,001, issued on April 7, was assigned to PRECISION OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS INC. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for providing a wavelength independent passive optical network extender" was invented by Harjinder Ghuman (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Christopher Page (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a passive optical network (PON) extender. The methods comprise: receiving, by the PON extender, a first optical signal from a remote node device of a passive optical network via a first optical link; amplifying the first optical signal using a Raman amplifier of the PON extender to obtain a first ...