US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 1 for "Optimization of spectrum sharing in optical line systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,265, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Optimization of spectrum sharing in optical line systems" was invented by Priyanth Mehta (Nepean, Canada), Darwin Evans (Ottawa), Michael Hubbard (Ottawa) and Robert W. Keys (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optimization of spectrum sharing in optical line systems include, for at least one fiber having optical spectrum being shared by at least two users in an optical line system, assigning value to the optical spectrum; determining using a policy and the assigned value of the optical spectrum how to partition the optical spect...