US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for automatically identifying connected ports within a PON" (Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,270, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for automatically identifying connected ports within a PON" 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 identifying connected ports 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 ONT via one or more optical fibers and a ...