US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 17 for "Validating the service continuity of deployed fiber serving terminals" (Texas, Georgia, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,270, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Validating the service continuity of deployed fiber serving terminals" was invented by Ricky Perry (Cumming, Ga.), Kristofer Flores (Allen, Texas), Todd Swenson (Pearland, Texas), Wendy Thompson (Stendal, Ind.) and Shawn Turner (Burleson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating service continuity of deployed fiber serving terminals in a passive optical network includes broadcasting, from a central office of a passive optical network, a beacon signal to a plurality of beacon responders, wherein each beacon responder of the pluralit...