US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 8 for "Optical cable mismatch error detection/remediation" (New York, Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,141, issued on April 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optical cable mismatch error detection/remediation" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Faezeh Gholami (Ridgewood, N.J.), Rafaela Frota (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical cable mismatch error detection and remediation process is provided which includes detecting, by at least one processor, an optical cable mismatch error in a connection path between optical transceivers of a computing network, where the connection path includes one or more optical cables. The dete...