US Patent Issued to CIENA on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for coherent spread spectrum optical spectroscopy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,984, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and apparatus for coherent spread spectrum optical spectroscopy" was invented by Brandon Taylor Buscaino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mohammad Ebrahim Mousa Pasandi (Ottawa) and Kim Byron Roberts (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating one or more first optical signals, launching the first optical signal into a medium, receiving from the medium one or more second optical signals, mixing the one or more second optical signals with one or more third optical signals to generate one or more mixed signals...