US Patent Issued to VIAVI Solutions on Aug. 4 for "Illuminating fibers of a fiber optic cable" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,024, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Illuminating fibers of a fiber optic cable" was invented by Jay Gregory Brace (Seattle), Robert Matthew Adams (Ottawa) and Eugene Chan (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may selectively illuminate, via a lighting module of the device, one or more fibers in a fiber optic cable using an illumination pattern. The device may detect, via a detection module of the device, illuminated fibers associated with the fiber optic cable based on the illumination pattern. The device may output, via the detection module of the ...