ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,569, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Method and system for communicating between mobile devices connected to PON devices" was invented by John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas), James Steacy (Dallas) and Bryan Pauling (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for communicating between client devices connected to components in a Passive Optical Network (PON) include establishing a communication session with an optical network terminal (ONT) in a PON via a short-range communication link. The PON includes an optical line terminal (OLT) optically connected to the O...