US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 22 for "Optical network unit, central office node and methods of configuring an optical network unit" (Italian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,616, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Optical network unit, central office node and methods of configuring an optical network unit" was invented by Luca Giorgi (Pisa, Italy), Fabio Cavaliere (Pisa, Italy), Paola Iovanna (Pisa, Italy) and Tomas Thyni (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical network unit, ONU, for a passive optical network, PON. The ONU comprises a tunable receiver having a wavelength tunable operating wavelength, a tunable transmitter having a wavelength tunable operating wavelength and a controller comprising at least one processor and memory...