US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Enhanced resolution time-domain reflectometry" (North Carolina, New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,468, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enhanced resolution time-domain reflectometry" was invented by Samuel R. Connor (Apex, N.C.), Matteo Cocchini (New York), Matthew Doyle (Chatfield, Minn.) and Stuart Brett Benefield (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for performing enhanced resolution time-domain reflectometry are provided. Aspects include obtaining a plurality of waveforms by transmitting a first pulse on a transmission line, transmitting a second pulse on the transmission line, where the second pulse is transmitted after the first pu...