ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,485, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NORTECH SYSTEMS INC. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Monitoring technology for active optical components" was invented by Jerome D. Taylor (Prior Lake, Minn.), Scott Blanc (Bemidji, Minn.), Carl Snyder (Bloomington, Minn.) and Brandon Lee Magnan (Crystal, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic monitoring device contains a diagnostic monitor circuit configured to monitor analog diagnostic monitoring information, and configured to convert the analog diagnostic monitoring information to digital diagnostic monitoring information, the diagnostic monitor circuit comprising a first clock or a first ...