ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,538, issued on June 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Remote status indicators for pluggable device" was invented by Denis A Khotimsky (Westborough, Mass.), Gregory K Sherrill (Herndon, Va.), Eugene DeFrancisci (Seaford, N.Y.), Phillip S Myers (Flower Mound, Texas) and Rajesh Yadav (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes storing status data for a network communication device connected to a host device by a pluggable connector in a memory of the network communication device. A change in the status data is signaled using a signal on the pluggable connector. T...