US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for identifying defects in local loops" (Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,466, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for identifying defects in local loops" was invented by Thomas C. Woldahl (Phoenix) and Leigh A. Benson (Nederland, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic testing/analysis of local loops of telecommunications networks includes obtaining bits-per-tone data for a local loop of a telecommunications network and generating a bit value string from the bits-per-tone data. The bit value string is then analyzed to determine whether it includes a bit pattern indicative of an impairment of the local loop. Further approaches for automaticall...