US Patent Issued to Ciena on June 17 for "Software programmable flexible and dynamic optical transceivers" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,981, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Software programmable flexible and dynamic optical transceivers" was invented by Michael Y. Frankel (Bethesda, Md.) and Stephen B. Alexander (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical transceiver includes an electro-optic front end; a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) connected to the electro-optic front end; and one or more Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) connected to the DAC and the ADC, wherein the one or more FPGAs are connected to one or more of a local memory and a remote storage for loading FPGA b...