Patents Examined by Abbas H Alagheband
  • Patent number: 12283995
    Abstract: A method for providing an electric waveform at a cryogenic temperatures includes providing an optical signal, which comprises an optical waveform, guiding the optical signal into a cryogenic chamber, and converting the optical waveform of the optical signal into an electric waveform inside the cryogenic chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
    Inventors: Antti Kemppinen, Jaani Nissilä, Jukka Viheriälä, Joonas Govenius
  • Patent number: 12278692
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: determining a network topology in a fiber optic network, wherein the network topology comprises a plurality of network elements joined by fiber optic links; selecting parameter values of a set of parameters for a channel between a first network element and a second network element in the plurality of network elements; applying the parameter values to create parameterized dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) signals between the first network element and the second network element; responsive to the applying the parameter values, determining characteristics of the channel in the fiber optic network; repeating the selecting and applying of the parameter values to determine the characteristics of the channel using different selected parameter values
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Communications Services India Private Limited
    Inventors: Mritunjay Pandey, Karunakar Revuri
  • Patent number: 12278663
    Abstract: The present application provides an optical module and parameter transmission method, detection method, control method thereof, and a fronthaul system. The parameter transmission method includes: generating, in response to at least one of a plurality of registers of a far-end optical module becoming a first source register, an uplink optical signal according to ID information and a register value of the first source register, where the first source register is a register having a changed register value of the plurality of registers, and register values of the registers have a mapping relationship with performance parameters of the far-end optical module; and transmitting the uplink optical signal to a near-end optical module of a near-end node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nengnian Zhu, Yun Zhang, Zhan Su
  • Patent number: 12273141
    Abstract: An optical cable mismatch error detection and remediation process is provided which includes detecting, by at least one processor, an optical cable mismatch error in a connection path between optical transceivers of a computing network, where the connection path includes one or more optical cables. The detecting includes evaluating operation of an optical transceiver of the connection path. The evaluating includes determining that data on one or more optical lanes of the optical transceiver is lane-mismatched data. The process further includes restructuring one or more lane assignments of the optical transceiver, based on determining that the data on the one or more optical lanes of the optical transceiver is lane-mismatched data, where the restructuring addresses the detected optical cable mismatch error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John S. Werner, Faezeh Gholami, Rafaela Frota, Andrew C. M. Hicks
  • Patent number: 12267103
    Abstract: This invention relates to an electromagnetic field receiver controller including a first and second optical transmitter, a transmission medium and an optical receiver. The first optical transmitter is configured to transmit a probe signal to the optical receiver via the transmission medium at a probe frequency and the second transmitter is configured to transmit a coupling signal via the transmission medium at a coupling frequency, wherein the probe frequency is set to excite electrons of the transmission medium from a ground state to a first excited state and the coupling frequency is set to excite electrons of the transmission medium to a predetermined excited state so as to induce an Electromagnetic Induced Transparency (EIT) effect in the electromagnetic field receiver such that an incident electromagnetic field at the transmission medium causes a detectable change in power of the probe signal at the optical receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Fraser Burton, Liam Bussey
  • Patent number: 12267112
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a communication system, a communication method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of reducing differences among receiving characteristics of a plurality of quadrature amplitude-modulated signals and optimizing the capacity of transmission signals are provided. A communication apparatus (1) according to the present disclosure includes a transmitting unit (2) capable of transmitting a plurality of types of quadrature amplitude-modulated signals, and an addition unit (3) that adds error correction codes to the quadrature amplitude-modulated signals. Further, the communication apparatus (1) includes a control unit (4) that changes the number of bits of the error correction code according to the type of the quadrature amplitude-modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Koga
  • Patent number: 12261645
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit having an optical phased array. The optical phased array includes multiple unit cells, where each unit cell includes an antenna element configured to transmit or receive optical signals. The unit cells are grouped into multiple supercells, and each supercell includes multiple unit cells. The apparatus also includes multiple arms configured to modify the optical signals transmitted or received by the optical phased array. Different ones of the arms are controllable to support transmission or reception of different optical signals in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Stephen P. Palese
  • Patent number: 12261686
    Abstract: An OAM mode-multiplexing transmitting apparatus includes an OAM transmitting processing unit, a phase adjustment unit, a transmitting radio unit, a UCA (Uniform Circular Array) antenna, and a control unit (control apparatus). The UCA antenna includes a plurality of transmitting antenna elements. In the control apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires “information corresponding to a transmitting-side axis misalignment”. A beam control unit controls a beam of the UCA antenna by controlling phases of N OAM mode-multiplexing signals based on the acquired “information corresponding to the transmitting-side axis misalignment”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eisaku Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12255731
    Abstract: A network or system in which a hub or primary node may communicate with a plurality of leaf or secondary nodes. The hub node may operate or have a capacity greater than that of the leaf nodes. Accordingly, relatively inexpensive leaf nodes may be deployed to receive data carrying optical signals from, and supply data carrying optical signals to, the hub node. One or more connections may couple each leaf node to the hub node, whereby each connection may include one or more spans or segments of optical fibers, optical amplifiers, optical splitters/combiners, and optical add/drop multiplexer, for example. Optical subcarriers may be transmitted over such connections, each carrying a data stream. The subcarriers may be generated by a combination of a laser and a modulator, such that multiple lasers and modulators are not required, and costs may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Rahn, Kuang-Tsan Wu, Steven J. Hand, David F. Welch
  • Patent number: 12250023
    Abstract: An optical space communications transmission and reception terminal includes: an optical transceiver to convert transmission data into a transmission optical signal modulated at a symbol rate synchronized with a transmission clock signal and output it, and generate received data from a reception optical signal; an intensity modulation unit to generate an intensity-modulated transmission optical signal; a transmission clock source to supply a transmission clock signal; a fiber coupling unit) to output the intensity-modulated transmission optical signal as collimated light and couple the input optical signal to an optical fiber; an optical fiber amplifier to amplify the optical signal coupled to the optical fiber; a tracking mirror to output the optical signal to the fiber coupling unit and output the transmission optical signal to space; and an angle sensor to output a clock signal extracted from the optical signal divided by a beam splitter to the optical transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12231162
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of fiber-optic communication technologies, and provides a fault locating method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: obtaining a first correspondence between a receive time and receive power during reverse backhaul that occurs when a test optical signal that can be reflected by a reflection component disposed at each port of at least one stage of optical splitter is in downlink transmission in an ODN, where reverse backhaul includes backscatter and reflection or includes backscatter; determining, based on the first correspondence, a second correspondence between a transmission distance and receive power during reverse backhaul that occurs when a test optical signal is in downlink transmission in an optical fiber between each port of the at least one stage of optical splitter and a component connected to the port; and locating a fault in the ODN based on the second correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenhua Dong, Xiaolong Dong
  • Patent number: 12231165
    Abstract: Provided is a device, which is a transmission device that can improve performance, that includes: a light source; and a transmitter that generates a modulated signal based on an input signal and transmits the modulated signal from the light source as visible light by changing a luminance of the light source in accordance with the modulated signal. The transmitter includes, in the modulated signal, a plurality of items of information related to service set identifiers (SSIDs) of a plurality of mutually different access points in a wireless local area network (LAN), and transmits the modulated signal from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 12224796
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking fiber port availability in a fiber distribution hub are presented. An exemplary method may include: responsive to a detection of a disconnection of a termination unit associated with the fiber distribution hub, the termination unit associated with a first port of a plurality of candidate ports, automatically updating, by one or more processors, a fiber distribution record representative of port availability in the fiber distribution hub such that the fiber distribution record is representative of an association between the termination unit and a second port of the plurality of candidate ports; generating, by the one or more processors and based on the detection of the disconnection of the termination unit, an indication of the second port; and transmitting, by the one or more processors, the indication of the second port to at least one of a computing device or a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Carlo Nino Alba, John Valdez, Vincenzo Gaccetta
  • Patent number: 12218708
    Abstract: Optical network systems are disclosed, including systems having transmitters with a digital signal processor comprising forward error correction circuitry that provides encoded first electrical signals based on input data; and power adjusting circuitry that receives second electrical signals indicative of the first electrical signals, the power adjusting circuitry supplying third electrical signals, wherein each of the third electrical signals is indicative of an optical power level of a corresponding to one of a plurality of optical subcarriers output from an optical transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Hand, Ahmed Awadala, Luis A. Perez, Vincent G. Dominic, Kuang-Tsan Wu
  • Patent number: 12218789
    Abstract: The present specification provides a method, performed by a device, for transmitting information about a pencil beam timing offset in a wireless optical communication system, in which a reference synchronization time is obtained, wherein the reference synchronization time is obtained on the basis of a cell-reference synchronization signal (C-RSS) received from another device, a peak energy time is obtained, the pencil beam timing offset is obtained on the basis of the reference synchronization time and the peak energy time, and information about the pencil beam timing offset is transmitted to the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hojae Lee, Sangrim Lee, Bonghoe Kim, Sunam Kim, Kijun Jeon, Byungkyu Ahn
  • Patent number: 12218704
    Abstract: A method and optical system for preemptively correcting a potential future misalignment of an optical communication beam between a plurality of free space optical (FSO) units or Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) units by intentionally generating predetermined and repetitive motions of the beam path between the units using an adjustment mechanism. In some examples the predetermined motion is a circular motion or a reciprocating and/or translating motion. The predetermined motions can be implemented by an adjustment mechanism which can include a plurality of piezoelectric actuators or one or more MEMS controlled mirrors or micro-lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Maurice Herman Johan Draaijer, Jan Ekkel, Harry Broers
  • Patent number: 12212405
    Abstract: A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the basis of the configuration request received by the reception unit; and a setting unit that performs a setting for a plurality of the optical transmitters in such a way that a virtual switch that executes transfer processing on the basis of the paths determined by the determination unit is configured for each one of a plurality of the paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Nishimoto, Kota Asaka, Junichi Kani
  • Patent number: 12199670
    Abstract: Proposed are an optimal operation method of a high-frequency dithering technique for compensating for interference noise in an analog optical transmission-based mobile fronthaul network, and a transmitter using same. An interference noise compensation method using high-frequency phase dithering performed in an analog optical transmission-based mobile fronthaul network may include the steps in which: a frequency-multiplexed wireless signal is converted in an optical transmitter to an intensity-modulated optical signal; and the phase of the optical signal intensity-modulated in the optical transmitter is dithered with an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yun Chur Chung, Byunggon Kim, Sunghyun Bae, Minsik Kim
  • Patent number: 12184329
    Abstract: A visible-light communication and illumination array includes a substrate and plural surface-emitting superluminescent diodes, SLDs, distributed across the substrate. A first set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a first light beam having substantially a first wavelength, a second set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a second light beam having substantially a second wavelength, and a third set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a third light beam having substantially a third wavelength. The array further includes a controller configured to encode at least one of the first light beam, the second light beam and the third light beam to transmit information. A combination of the first light beam, the second light beam and the third light beam produces white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Boon S. Ooi, Omar Alkhazragi, Tien Khee Ng
  • Patent number: 12185036
    Abstract: A method of controlling transmission of an upstream packet traffic from a plurality of Optical Network Units to an Optical Line Terminal in a Passive Optical Network based fronthaul network. The Optical Network Units transmit packets in a time division multiplexed access scheme to the Optical Line Terminal and the method comprises obtaining mobile upstream scheduling information, scheduling the packet traffic from the plurality of Optical Network Units based on delay constraints of the PON-based front haul network and the obtained mobile upstream scheduling information. The method also comprises transmitting the scheduling of the packet traffic to the plurality of ONUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fabio Cavaliere, Stefano Ruffini, Peter Olanders