US Patent Issued to Teleste Networks on June 23 for "Determining network topology" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,814, issued on June 23, was assigned to Teleste Networks Oy (Littoinen, Finland).

"Determining network topology" was invented by Kari Maki (Turku, Finland) and Sami Salo (Littoinen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a topology of a cable television (CATV) network segment, wherein the segment comprises a network node and a plurality of amplifiers in one or more branches of the segment, the method comprising steps of a) providing a first amplifier with instructions to adjust downstream signal level; b) monitoring changes of signal level or parameters of gain/slope alignment elements in one or more amplifie...