ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,634, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical tunnel network system and fault diagnosis method for the same" was invented by Chun-Ting Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Maria Chi-Jui Yuang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Lung Tien (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shao-Chun Wen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault diagnosis method applied to an optical tunnel network system (OPTUNS) having multiple optical switches and multiple optical fibers connected to the multiple optical switches is disclosed and includes following steps: detecting whether the multiple tunnels of the OPTUNS include a faulty tunnel...