US Patent Issued to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS on March 4 for "Devices and methods for mesh-based fault detection in passive optical networks" (Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,983, issued on March 4, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Devices and methods for mesh-based fault detection in passive optical networks" was invented by John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas), Soms Wongbar (Garland, Texas) and Bryan Pauling (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PON system includes both a PON via which optical services are delivered and a wireless network overlaying the PON. The wireless network may be a self-organizing wireless mesh network, and may generally operate as a logical signaling pathway via which information regarding optical states/statuses of PON components and/or r...