US Patent Issued to Infinera on Feb. 4 for "Apparatuses and methods for digital subcarrier parameter modifications for optical communication networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,708, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for digital subcarrier parameter modifications for optical communication networks" was invented by Steven Joseph Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ahmed Awadala (Gatineau, Canada), Luis A. Perez (McKinney, Texas), Vincent G. Dominic (Dayton, Ohio) and Kuang-Tsan Wu (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical network systems are disclosed, including systems having transmitters with a digital signal processor comprising forward error correction circuitry that provides encoded first electrical signals based on input data; and power adjus...