ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,276, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Multi-band coexistence element" was invented by John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas) and Erwin Wardojo (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coexistence element within a passive optical network (PON) includes a housing having a plurality of input communication ports. Each input communication port is configured to receive, via a separate optical fiber, optical communications each having a wavelength within a particular wavelength band corresponding to a particular optical service. At least one of the input communication ports is...