US Patent Issued to II-VI Delaware on July 7 for "Shared OTDR resource" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,669, issued on July 7, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Shared OTDR resource" 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 shared OTDR resource is disclosed that utilizes a combination of a pluggable OTDR and incorporated 1xN optical switch to allow for OTDR measurement and monitoring functionality to be shared between a plurality of N separate optical fibers that are used as communication paths between a pair of optical nodes (for example, a plurality of individual fiber spans used to interconnect a pair of data centers)....