US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on March 11 for "Remotely biasing, controlling, and monitoring a network routing node based on remotely provided optical signals" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,502, issued on March 11, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Remotely biasing, controlling, and monitoring a network routing node based on remotely provided optical signals" was invented by Amir Minoofar (Los Angeles), Fatemeh Alishahi (Los Angeles), Ahmad Fallahpour (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan L. Habif (Waltham, Mass.) and Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control signal may be modulated on an optical wave. A transmitter may transmit the control signal to a switch/processor location. At the remote node, the control signal is received and converted from an optical signal to ...