ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,326, issued on March 4, was assigned to Gugli Corp. (Sheridan, Wyo.).

"Monitoring system for a distributed antenna system" was invented by Andries Petrus Cronje Fourie (Parkview, South Africa) and Derek Colin Nitch (Witkoppen, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system 22 for a distributed antenna system (DAS) 10 is provided. The DAS comprises central transmitter 12 which is connected by a signal transmission network 14 to a plurality of distributed antenna devices (DAD) 16.1 to 16.n. The network comprises physical branches. Each of the DAD's is connected to a respective sub-branch 14.11 and comprises at least one ...