US Patent Issued to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 7 for "Optical tapping in an indexing architecture" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,609, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Optical tapping in an indexing architecture" was invented by Erik J. Gronvall (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indexing system includes an indexing component; a redundant optical path; and a fiber tap arrangement. Multiple indexing components can be daisy-chained together in the indexing system. The redundant optical path is created between any forward port and any rearward port in the network. Multiple redundant optical paths can be created within the network. One or more tap arrangements can be disposed along each redundant optical pa...