US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Characterization of inter-channel crosstalk in an optical network" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,556, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Characterization of inter-channel crosstalk in an optical network" was invented by Yawei Yin (Redmond, Wash.) and Binbin Guan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communications network comprises optical data links comprising data channels. A time-domain sampled waveform of a selected data channel is obtained. The Fourier transform is applied to the time-domain sampled waveform of the selected data channel to generate a frequency-domain waveform of the selected data channel. Time-domain sampled waveforms of the selected ...