US Patent Issued to Pine River Innovations on July 22 for "Telephone line testing apparatus with remote control" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,797, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pine River Innovations LLC (Pine River, Minn.).

"Telephone line testing apparatus with remote control" was invented by Andrew Vincent Johnson (Pine River, Minn.), Alan Lee Johnson (Pine River, Minn.) and Paul Coleman Hunt (Pine River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for telephone line testing provides a tone generator that can be remotely switched to short or open via a cable pair by monitoring shorts on the cable pair itself to allow a simplified testing protocol with reduced technician travel and without the need for a remote controller carried by the technician."

The paten...