Deutsche Telekom was granted a patent for user-defined optical networking.

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    "patent_title": "Establishing a transmission functionality for providing, via a telecommunications network, a communication or connectivity service between a first location and a second location based on optical data transmission of a user-defined optical signal",
    "patent_number": "US12776851",
    "uspto_assignee": "Deutsche Telekom AG",
    "patent_abstract": "A method for establishing a network-internal transmission functionality for providing, via a telecommunications network, a communication or connectivity service between a first location and a second location based on optical data transmission of a user-defined optical signal includes the following steps: in a first step, the establishment of the network-internal transmission functionality is triggered; and in a second step, the network-internal transmission functionality is established by causing a plurality of optical network nodes to apply at least one transmission path based on at least one piece of transmission path information.",
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curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
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