ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,512, issued on July 22, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).
"Shared geographically dispersed virtualization of PON" was invented by Shawn W. Warner (Pepperell, Mass.) and David Bowler (Stow, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system supporting the geographically dispersed remote optical line terminals."
The patent was filed on May 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/202,805.
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