US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on June 17 for "Fiber optic signal monitoring" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,977, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Fiber optic signal monitoring" was invented by David J. Dolezilek (Pullman, Wash.), Mauricio G. Silveira (Pullman, Wash.) and Bharat Nalla (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic communication system may include a transmitting subsystem, a receiving subsystem, a power monitoring subsystem, a temperature monitoring subsystem, an alarm subsystem, and a data logging subsystem. The transmitting subsystem may be configured to transmit optical signals encoding data into an optical path. The receiving subsystem may be confi...