ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,922, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for diagnosing anomalies occurring within a passive optical network via integrated domains" was invented by Bryan Pauling (Rochester, N.Y.) and John Valdez (Copper Canyon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for diagnosing anomalies (e.g., faults, degradation and/or loss of service) occurring in a passive optical network (PON) include integrating, based on temporal precedence, real-time diagnostic information from multiple (and typically mutually-exclusive) domains of the PON into an integrated, multi-domain...