US Patent Issued to Ciena on Nov. 11 for "Continuously changing system clock in a packet processing module based on load" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,362, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Continuously changing system clock in a packet processing module based on load" was invented by Kenneth Edward Neudorf (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive a fill level from N first-in, first-out (FIFOs), N is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1, determine a module clock speed based on the fill level, and program a phase lock loop (PLL) based on the determined module clock speed where the PLL provides a module clock at the module clock speed to a packet processing circuit configured to receive packets...