ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,467, issued on April 22, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).
"Optical network configuration" was invented by Catherine White (London) and Neil Parkin (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical network including an optical splitter configured to split an optical signal incident on the optical splitter into at least a control signal and a data signal; an optical switch; a first optical path configured to carry the control signal between the optical splitter and the optical switch; and a second optical path configured to carry the data signal between the optical splitter and the optical switch. The optical net...