US Patent Issued to Viavi Solutions on Feb. 17 for "Tracking extra-vehicular technician progress in a network monitoring system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,292, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Viavi Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Tracking extra-vehicular technician progress in a network monitoring system" was invented by Raleigh B. Stelle IV (Indianapolis) and Scott Lank (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technician's progress may be tracked using a location data from a mobile device being carried by the technician. For instance, when the technician undocks a test instrument, such as a handheld meter for measuring leakage signal, the mobile device may be triggered to track and transmit its locations. Therefore, the test instrument-mobile device combination may continu...