US Patent Issued to ADTRAN NETWORKS on May 20 for "Performance monitoring device, method for performance monitoring of an optical system, and optical signal network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,877, issued on May 20, was assigned to ADTRAN NETWORKS SE (Meiningen ot Dreissigacker, Germany).

"Performance monitoring device, method for performance monitoring of an optical system, and optical signal network" was invented by Tobias Fehenberger (Meiningen, Germany) and Henrik Enggaard Hansen (Meiningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a performance monitoring device, an optical signal network with performance monitoring, and a performance monitoring method. The performance monitoring device (100) comprises a coherent receiver (10), an analog-to-digital-converter, ADC (20), a digital signal pro...