US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on June 10 for "Systems, methods, and storage media for testing local loops of telecommunications networks" (Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,410, issued on June 10, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems, methods, and storage media for testing local loops of telecommunications networks" was invented by Thomas C. Woldahl (Phoenix), Erik V. Helrich (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Michael J. Durkin (Littleton, Colo.), Larry J. North (Littleton, Colo.) and Abid Khan (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic testing/analysis of local loops of telecommunications networks includes obtaining bits-per-tone data for a local loop of a telecommunications network and generating a bit value string from the bits-per-tone data. The bit value string is then...