US Patent Issued to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING on March 25 for "Detecting and localizing cable plant impairments using full band capture spectrum analysis" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,762, issued on March 25, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Detecting and localizing cable plant impairments using full band capture spectrum analysis" was invented by Ben J. Guidarelli (Cazenovia, N.Y.) and William Berger (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collect a full band capture spectral reading from a plurality of cable/fiber broadband network customer units (e.g., cable modems or equivalent optical units); for each of the cable/fiber broadband network customer units, construct an ideal spectral reading. For each of the cable/fiber broadband network customer units, subtract the ide...