US Patent Issued to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS on Oct. 14 for "Mesh-based fault detection in passive optical networks" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,756, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Mesh-based fault detection in passive optical networks" was invented by John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas).

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 related information is delivered from the field to back-end servers of the PON system. Accor...