ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,961, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Tunable dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-based optical fiber monitoring" was invented by Jean Ponchon (Saint Medard en Forez, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a tunable dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) may include a fiber optic link analyzer, executed by at least one hardware processor, to determine, based on a user input, for a fiber optic link of a plurality of fiber optic links of a fiber optic cable, whether the fiber opt...