ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,850, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Asymmetric pulse-shaping in digital communication systems" was invented by Francisco Javier Vaquero Caballero (Valladolid, Spain), Mehdi Torbatian (Ottawa), Demin Yao (Ottawa), Han Henry Sun (Ottawa), Jonathan Buset (San Jose, Calif.) and Kuang-Tsan Wu (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing asymmetric pulse-shaping filtering. In some implementations, a receiver comprises a detector circuit operable to receive optical signal data from an optical link. The recei...