US Patent Issued to VIAVI SOLUTIONS on Jan. 13 for "High speed bidirectional optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-based testing of device under test" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,044, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"High speed bidirectional optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-based testing of device under test" was invented by Charlene Roux (Chamboeuf, France) and Julien Barrier (Saint Jean Bonnefonds, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, high speed bidirectional OTDR-based testing may include transmitting data from a first end of a device under test (DUT) towards an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) that is operatively connected to a second opposite end of the DUT. Further data that is transmitted by the OTDR may be received from the ...