Ghioni

Armand P. Ghioni, Somerville, MA US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100012044	SKIRT FOR AN ANIMAL/FISH TANK STAND - The present invention relates to an animal tank stand skirt for an animal tank stand (e.g., a metal stand). The stand includes four legs having a top portion and a bottom portion, a platform having a front long member, a rear long member, and two short members that connect the top end of each leg to form a rectangular opening to receive an animal tank. The animal tank stand skirt includes two rectangular skirt members, each skirt member has a top end, a bottom end, a first side and a second side; one or more fasteners at the top end of the skirt member; and one or more pockets on an inside portion of the skirt member, at or near the first side. The skirt has an opening at the middle at the first sides of each skirt member; and the skirt has a length and width that fit a standard size tank stand. The present invention further includes methods of use thereof, kits and systems that include the animal tank stand skirt.	01-21-2010

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20090034978	Directionless Reconfigurable Optical Add and Drop Mesh Node - A reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) with a multiplexer, demultiplexer, and a wavelength cross-connect unit provides directionless capabilities. The ROADM allows a signal not to be limited to a particular direction when added at an optical network node, for example. The signal can be sent to other directions of the optical network node. Furthermore, the ROADM allows the wavelengths of add and drop signals to be changed and hence is “colorless.”	02-05-2009

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20110236013	USE OF SUBCARRIER DEACTIVATION IN A MULTI-SUBCARRIER CHANNEL TO IMPROVE REACH IN AN OPTICAL NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining that a transmission of a data signal over a path of a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical network using a group of optical subcarriers is not optically feasible; determining that the transmission of the data signal over the path using a subset of the group of optical subcarriers is optically feasible; activating subcarriers for the subset of optical carriers while deactivating one or more optical subcarriers of the group, at least one deactivated subcarrier provided between at least two activated subcarriers of the group; and transmitting the data signal over at least a portion of the path using the activated subcarriers of the group.	09-29-2011