US Patent Issued to Panduit on July 29 for "Optical channel bandwidth analyzer" (New York, Louisiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,714, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Optical channel bandwidth analyzer" was invented by Richard J. Pimpinella (Prairieville, La.), Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.), Asher S. Novick (New York), Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.) and Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test apparatus has at least one optical source, a high-speed photodetector, a microcontroller or processor, and electrical circuitry to power and drive the optical source, high-speed photodetector, and microcontroller or processor. The apparatus measures the frequency response and optical path length of a mult...