ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,552, issued on July 8, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamically switching queueing schemes for network switches" was invented by Steven J. Hand (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example node includes a receiver, a switch circuit, and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a first modulated optical signal including a first plurality of optical subcarriers, and supply a plurality of data streams based on the first plurality of optical subcarriers. Each of the data streams is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of optical subcarriers. The switch circuit is configure...