ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,270, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Fault locating method for optical network and related device" was invented by Bing Zhou (Dongguan, China), Yangjun Wan (Dongguan, China), Zhihong Jia (Dongguan, China), Kaidi Zhao (Dongguan, China) and Hongfei Hu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a fault locating method for an optical network and a related device to reduce network complexity of fault locating and improve accuracy and efficiency of fault locating in an optical network. The method provides a network management device obtains a first sample set fro...