US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 16 for "Efficient simulation of optical effects in optical networks" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,818, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Efficient simulation of optical effects in optical networks" was invented by Ling Yin (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include obtaining a processing graph having aggregated vertices and edges from a network graph representing an optical network, wherein one or more vertex and edge in the processing graph represents a grouping of vertices and edges from the network graph based on a given optical effect from a plurality of optical effects; and tracing the processing graph to perform a simulation of one or more optical effects of the pluralit...