ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,556, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Downstream synchronization state machine for optical line terminal (OLT)-configurable bit interleaving in high-speed passive optical networks (PONs)" was invented by Xiang Liu (Addison, Texas), Andy Shen (Addison, Texas), Frank Effenberger (Frisco, Texas) and Yuanqiu Luo (Cranbury, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by an optical network unit (ONU) in a passive optical network (PON). The method includes receiving an encoded downstream (DS) signal from an optical line terminal (OLT), searching for a physical synchronization s...