ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,372, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Localization of an anomaly in an optical transmission system" was invented by Inwoong Kim (Allen, Texas), Olga I. Vassilieva (Plano, Texas) and Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method may include a first optical signal and a second optical signal being obtained by a receiving device. The first optical signal may include a first wavelength and the second optical signal may include a second wavelength. The method may also include obtaining a determination that a dynamic anomaly may be present in the transmission ...