US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Jan. 27 for "Multi-path, smart optical time-domain reflectometer" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,597, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Multi-path, smart optical time-domain reflectometer" was invented by Ricky Perry (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining distinct timing offsets between an input port and output ports of a multiport optical device. An optical signal is injected at an input port of the device to obtain output signals at the output ports, which are injected into downstream fibers. An optical multipath return signal is received via the input port of the device, including a combination of measure...