ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,656, issued on March 3, was assigned to EXFO Taiwan Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Analyzing bit error data to determine a root cause of errors in a digital system" was invented by Jean Khayrallah (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting bit errors and further processing bit error information. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of receiving a binary test sequence pattern generated by a pattern generator at an input to a digital communications system under test, wherein the binary test sequence pattern includes a plurality of sub-patterns. The method also in...