US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on March 4 for "Easy DSL signal detector" (Colorado, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,471, issued on March 4, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Easy DSL signal detector" was invented by Anthony M. Bieniek (Centennial, Colo.) and Brian E. Bond (Fairmont, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing easy digital subscriber line ("DSL") signal detection. In various embodiments, after a connector of a signal detector has been inserted into a network service port, a processor of the signal detector may determine whether a pilot tone is present on at least one signal wire communicatively coupled to the network service port, the pilot tone being ...