US Patent Issued to MAXLINEAR on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for detecting and locating a fault in a cable network" (Israeli, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,152, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAXLINEAR INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for detecting and locating a fault in a cable network" was invented by Thushara Hewavithana (Hatfield, Great Britain), Shaul Shulman (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Nathan Goichberg (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for detecting and locating a fault in a cable network. A cable modem may perform channel estimation to obtain a time domain channel response on an echo channel in a cable network. The cable modem then analyzes the time domain channel response to determine whether there is any change from a previousl...