US Patent Issued to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for fiber upstream trace determination" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,250, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for fiber upstream trace determination" was invented by Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, Wash.) and Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing an upstream trace operation are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a new service location of a passive optical network (PON); detecting a physical polyline route, within the PON, from an on-ramp facility corresponding to the new service location to a serving office of the PON, the detecting based on (i) r...