ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,293, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arcom Digital LLC (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Concurrent upstream and downstream leakage detection" was invented by Greg Tresness (Manlius, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for leakage detection in an aeronautical band for a high split HFC network includes: providing a vehicle borne leak detector configured to perform substantially simultaneous upstream and downstream leakage detection; and while traversing a hub containing any quantity of high split nodes, performing a substantially simultaneous upstream leakage detection and a downstream leakage detection at about a same frequency. A syste...