ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,525, issued on July 22, was assigned to Infinera Corp (San Jose, Calif.).
"Orchestration control protocol" was invented by Ashok Kunjidhapatham (Devarachikkanahalli, India), Ashwini Kumar Bhat (Bangalore, India), G J Raghavendra (Bangalore, India), Anoop Rajan (Alappuzha District, India) and Nikhil Satyarthi (Yelahanka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical network is herein described. The optical network comprises a fiber optic line, a first network element, and a second network element. The first network element comprises a first optical interface, a first processor, and a first memory storing first processor-executable i...