ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,230, issued on June 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Reconfigurable passive terminal that manages access to an optical channel spectrum" was invented by Ricky Perry (Cumming, Ga.) and Stewart Barker (Lucas, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a housing that includes a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port, wherein the first waveguide port is configured for receiving an optical signal via a first optical waveguide optically coupled to the first waveguide port. The housing may include a passive optical processing module that is removabl...