ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,674, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Anomaly monitoring of bidirectional optical links" was invented by Inwoong Kim (Allen, Texas), Olga I Vassilieva (Plano, Texas), Ryu Shinzaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Motohiko Eto (Kawasaki, Japan), Shoichiro Oda (Kawasaki, Japan) and Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a first power profile estimation (PPE) for a first optical signal propagating through an optical link in a first direction. The method may include obtaining a second PPE for a second optical signal propagating through the optical link in a...