US Patent Issued to II-VI Delaware on July 21 for "Pluggable optical time domain reflectometer" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,458, issued on July 21, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Pluggable optical time domain reflectometer" was invented by Ian Peter McClean (Brixham, Great Britain) and Siegfried Fleischer (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pluggable OTDR is disclosed that is utilizes a specific architecture that separates its passive optical elements from the remaining active optical and electrical elements. The set of active elements (i.e., laser, photodetector, and control/processing electronics) can arranged in a manner similar to a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver and assembled within a h...