US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for performing optical time domain reflectometry on an optical fibre" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,457, issued on July 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for performing optical time domain reflectometry on an optical fibre" was invented by Roberto Magri (Genoa, Italy) and Davide Sanguinetti (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method for performing optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) on an optical fibre. The method comprises transmitting a first signal into an optical fibre, wherein the first signal comprises a sequence of optical radiation pulses based on a coded sequence, wherein each of the sequence of optical radiation ...