ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,773, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).
"DSL fault location" was invented by Feiyu Fang (London), Lykourgos Kekempanos (London) and Daniel Gilks (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the location of a disconnection on a digital subscriber line, in particular a VDSL line, where the line has a number of nodes or connection points along it. A statistical model is generated from a population of lines that maps the loop (line) lengths of each of those lines obtained by line test measurements (such as single ended line test traces-SELT traces) against the corresponding loop ...