ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,464, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DAC System SA (Manno, Switzerland).
"Fault detection method" was invented by Paolo Delmastro (Lainate, Italy), Riccardo Maggiora (San Salvatore Monferrato, Italy) and Sara Marina Salvador (Rosta, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for testing faults and non-conformities in a waveguide, in a radio transmitting system comprising a transmitter connected to an antenna by a waveguide, a coaxial cable or a coaxial line. The device is arranged for injecting a signal in the waveguide and for receiving a backscattered signal, characterizing a nonconformity or a fault. The injected signal may ...