US Patent Issued to Ciena on Oct. 21 for "Cooling assembly and method for user-facing surfaces of a pluggable optical module" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,616, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Cooling assembly and method for user-facing surfaces of a pluggable optical module" was invented by Peter Ajersch (Dunrobin, Canada), Trevor Meunier (Kemptville, Canada) and Mitchell O'Leary (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system including: a faceplate including a receptacle adapted to receive a pluggable optical module; and one or more of: a thermal pad disposed adjacent to at least one interior side of the receptacle, wherein the thermal pad is adapted to be in thermal communication with the pluggable optical module when the pluggable optical mod...