US Patent Issued to VIAVI Solutions on March 24 for "Creating channels for network testing using centroids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,242, issued on March 24, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Creating channels for network testing using centroids" was invented by Sohail Payami (Essex, Great Britain), Ata Sattarzadeh Hashemi (Guildford, Great Britain), Chi-ming Leung (Hardwick, Great Britain), Stephen Wang (London) and Zunaira Babar (Hitchin, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network test device may generate a set of candidate points in a spatial frequency domain. The network test device may select, from the set of candidate points, an initial set of points in the spatial frequency domain that maximizes a...