US Patent Issued to Infinera on Aug. 12 for "State of polarization sensitive coherent optical time domain reflectometry" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,529, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"State of polarization sensitive coherent optical time domain reflectometry" was invented by Pierre Mertz (Baltimore), Han Henry Sun (Ottawa) and Robert Maher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transceiver is herein described. The transceiver comprises an optical source providing an optical signal, a modulator receiving the optical signal and configured to encode data into the optical signal, a transmitter module to receive data to be encoded into the optical signal and having at least one drive circuit supplying driver signals to the modulator t...