ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,281, issued on May 13, was assigned to ELETRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for registering new terminal using chromatic dispersion distance estimation" was invented by Jung-yeol Oh (Sejong-si, South Korea), Hun Sik Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Rok Moon (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for registering a new terminal using chromatic dispersion distance estimation. The method of registering a new terminal, performed by a transport unit (TU), includes performing frame synchronization through a downstream packet...