US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Optical transceiver misconnection discovery" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,617, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical transceiver misconnection discovery" was invented by Gudipaty Vasanta Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anjali Mysore Vijayakumar (San Jose, Calif.), Ratna Reddy Chada (Hudson, Mass.), Joanne Tse (San Ramon, Calif.), Darja Padilla (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Charles Nowell (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optical transceiver misconnection identification that allows a simple low-level process to monitor and communicate optical transceiver characteristics information between two optical transceiver modules regardless of their tran...