US Patent Issued to Adtran Networks on Feb. 3 for "Network node for a coherent optical WDM transmission network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,612, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adtran Networks SE (Meiningen, Germany).

"Network node for a coherent optical WDM transmission network" was invented by Henning Hinderthur (Finning, Germany) and Cornelius Furst (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a network node for a coherent optical wavelength division multiplex (WDM) transmission network including at least one remote port which is adapted to receive from and/or output to neighboring network nodes an optical WDM signal including one or more optical channel signals each lying within an optical channel of an optical WDM transmission band a predet...