ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,834, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Mapping fiber networks" was invented by Jorge Alberto Castillo Castellanos (Pasadena, Calif.), Valey Kamalov (Gainesville, Fla.), Ignatius Sonny Franslay (Campbell, Calif.) and Shirshendu Bhattacharya (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to a method of mapping fiber networks. The fiber networks may include a plurality of cables, such as fiber optic cables. The cable may be divided into segments. Each cable has a first end segment and a second end segment, each with a known location. When there is a perturbation tha...