US Patent Issued to Citibank on July 14 for "Optic power monitoring system" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,856, issued on July 14, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Optic power monitoring system" was invented by Raja Balasubramanian (Skillman, N.J.), Rene Wilfredo Villatoro Escalante (Irving, Texas), Chike Gideon Okechukwu (Denton, Texas), Terry John Jenkins (Irving, Texas) and Scott Taylor (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology may be utilized in network environments that use fiber optic cables to connect components. Components of the network perform functions as transceivers that transmit and receive light signals via the fiber cable. When optic power data received from the transceivers is recognized as a ...