ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,353, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Transmitting and receiving synchronization data" was invented by Stefano Stracca (Pisa, Italy), Fabio Cavaliere (Pisa, Italy) and Paolo Debenedetti (Genoa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting synchronization data over a FlexE communications link. In an example aspect, a method of transmitting synchronization data over a FlexE communications link includes, in response to a synchronization event, selecting a next slot of the FlexE communications link that is unallocated or is allocated to a...