US Patent Issued to Infinera on March 25 for "Fiber cut/fault localization using digital subcarriers" (Canadian, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,646, issued on March 25, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fiber cut/fault localization using digital subcarriers" was invented by Magnus Olson (Jarfalla, Sweden), Amir Rashidinejad (Kanata, Canada) and Jia Ge (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are coherent transceivers and methods of using the same. One exemplary coherent transceiver may be provided with a coherent transmitter operable to transmit a first optical signal and a coherent receiver comprising a processor executing processor-executable code that when executed causes the processor to receive a second optical signal, the sec...