ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,590, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Adtran Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Methods and systems for ensuring proper installation of telecommunication equipment" was invented by Donald Larry Brannen Jr. (Huntsville, Ala.) and James Todd Manley (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for ensuring proper installation of telecommunication equipment. A system in some embodiments has a mobile device equipped with an image sensor that is used to acquire one or more images of a telecommunication equipment component that has been installed. The mobile device may then evaluate ...