ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,624, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Signal-to-noise ratio-based bit error ratio calculation for reporting beyond a forward error correction threshold" was invented by Eric Maniloff (Woodlawn, Canada), Christian Bourget (Stittsville, Canada), Hoang-Bao Le Van (Kanata, Canada), Marc Veilleux (Ottawa) and Steven Clarke (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-based bit error ratio (BER) calculations for reporting beyond a forward error correction (FEC) threshold include measuring signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a first signal; extrapolating the SNR of a first signal to determine an...