US Patent Issued to Infinera on Sept. 2 for "Subcarrier based data center network architecture" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,439, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subcarrier based data center network architecture" was invented by Stuart Elby (Chester, N.J.) and David F. Welch (Atherton, Calif.).

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 generating, transmitting, directing, receiving, and processing optical subcarriers. In some implementations, a system includes a Tier 1 switch that supplies a plurality of data channels; a transmitter that receives the plurality of data channels, the transmitter including an optical modulator that sup...