Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
1,966 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Ciena Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,966
1,966 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
124
Against 108 in 2024 and 118 in 2023
Applications published
1,346
149 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Digital communication224
Telecommunications143
Optics60
Basic communication processes46
Computer technology39
Audio-visual technology25
Semiconductors15
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy10
Measurement5
Handling3
IT methods for management2
Thermal processes and apparatus1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Ciena Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 13 more under the same name are not counted (printed in DE, printed in CA)
571 publishedCiena Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
775 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,077 | Diversifying k-shortest path computation results for multiple vertices as destination or as inclusion constraint | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,066 | Security mode enhancement for connectivity fault management (CFM) | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,500,965 | Authenticated channel for encryption management | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,500,832 | Establishing and advertising co-routed bidirectional paths across multiple domains | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,500,818 | Efficient simulation of optical effects in optical networks | Telecommunications | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,500,797 | Duty-cycle distortion (DCD) and bit-level inter-symbol interference (ISI) pre- compensation for a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,498,994 | Coalescing publication events based on subscriber tolerances | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,498,777 | Dynamic transport architecture for supporting flexible, open, intelligent, and power efficient edge-to-edge services across network domains | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,495,230 | Rangeless failover in PON protection switching | Telecommunications | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,494,842 | Optical link optimization based on signal and interferer power discrimination | Telecommunications | Ciena Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392508 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING A DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) RELAY AGENT (RA) TO OBTAIN ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING (ZTP) FAILURE INFORMATION | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392394 | TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY (IF)-ASSISTED DECOMPOSITION OF SYSTEM TRANSFER FUNCTION | Telecommunications | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0389912 | Shear Resistant Conformal Thermal Gap Filler Assembly for Pluggable Optical Module Heatsinks | Optics | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0385854 | AUTONOMOUS ADAPTIVE ROUTE-SUMMARIZATION | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0385815 | DUTY-CYCLE DISTORTION (DCD) AND BIT-LEVEL INTER-SYMBOL INTERFERENCE (ISI) PRE-COMPENSATION FOR A DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER (DAC) | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation · patent 12,500,797 granted from it |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0385206 | CONFIGURING CONDUCTIVE SEPARATING STRUCTURES BETWEEN DIES AND SUBSTRATES | Semiconductors | Ciena Corporation |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0373555 | Programmable Path Computation Engine | Digital communication | Ciena Corporation |
| Nov 27, 2025 | 2025/0363104 | GENERATIVE AI-BASED TENANCY CONTROL PLANE OPERATOR COACH FOR KUBERNETES CLUSTER | Computer technology | Ciena Corporation |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0358022 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMON MODE REJECTION (CMR) FILTERING IN A SUBSTRATE | Telecommunications | Ciena Corporation |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0354914 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | Measurement | Ciena Corporation |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 96 · Telecommunications 65 · Optics 31 · Computer technology 21 · Audio-visual technology 20 · Semiconductors 12.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.