ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,337, issued on March 4, was assigned to SubCom LLC (Eatontown, N.J.).

"Methods, mediums, and systems for testing fiber optic telecommunication systems" was invented by William W. Patterson (Freehold, N.J.), D. Mark Havens (Wall, N.J.), Robert P. Bellomo (Montclair, N.J.), Bamdad Bakhshi (Asbury Park, N.J.), Robert Behringer (Monmouth Beach, N.J.), Roberto Mattos (Morganville, N.J.), Ying Jiang (Metuchen, N.J.), William C. Barnett (Freehold, N.J.) and Mark Enright (Hampton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes techniques for testing fiber optic telecommunication systems, such as undersea fiber optic cable sys...