Assignee profile:

EXFO INC.

City:

QUEBEC

Country:

Canada

Published Applications:

97

Last publication date:

2025-06-12

Patent Grants:

92

Last grant date:

2024-02-20

Top Inventors for applications by EXFO INC.

These are the the leading inventors for applications assigned to EXFO INC.:

Recent patent applications by EXFO INC.

EXFO INC. based in QUEBEC, CA has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2025-06-12
US20250192882A1
Electricity

Systems and methods for proactively detecting faulty optical fibers using OTDR data, environmental data, and machine learning

#2 | 2025-03-06
US20250078238A1
Physics

ENHANCED OPTICAL FIBER INSPECTION USING IMAGE SEGMENTATION

#3 | 2025-03-06
US20250076152A1
Physics

Mapping connectivity of optical fibers between remote locations

#4 | 2024-11-21
US20240385076A1
Physics

Visual Fault Locator (VFL) with variable gain control

#5 | 2024-02-20 βœ… Patent 11,906,389 granted on 2024-02-20
US17660077
Physics

System and method for assisting in fiber optic splices

#6 | 2023-11-16 βœ… Patent 12,429,653 granted on 2025-09-30
US20230367082A1
Physics

ADAPTER TIP AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING DUPLEX FIBER-OPTIC CONNECTOR ENDFACES

#7 | 2023-08-10 βœ… Patent 12,520,253 granted on 2026-01-06
US20230254788A1
Electricity

RF spectrum analyzer for TDD transmission that maintains synchronization between UL and DL with a single antenna

#8 | 2023-07-20 βœ… Patent 12,442,719 granted on 2025-10-14
US20230228649A1
Physics

DUPLEX OPTICAL POWER LOSS MEASUREMENT USING AN ADAPTOR DEVICE

#9 | 2023-03-02 βœ… Patent 11,892,507 granted on 2024-02-06
US20230060909A1
Physics

Early detection of quality control test failures for manufacturing end-to-end testing optimization

#10 | 2022-12-08 βœ… Patent 12,050,150 granted on 2024-07-30
US20220390321A1
Physics

Spectral averaging of OTDR traces

#11 | 2022-08-25 βœ… Patent 11,921,000 granted on 2024-03-05
US20220268665A1
Physics

Visual fiber finder for sequencing optical fiber testing

#12 | 2022-08-04 βœ… Patent 12,052,134 granted on 2024-07-30
US20220247620A1
Electricity

Identification of clusters of elements causing network performance degradation or outage

#13 | 2022-06-16 βœ… Patent 11,956,513 granted on 2024-04-09
US20220191597A1
Electricity

Automated calibration of QoE assessment between content delivery network (CDN) entities

#14 | 2022-06-02 βœ… Patent 12,050,149 granted on 2024-07-30
US20220170816A1
Physics

Optical fiber endface inspection microscope having a swappable optical head

#15 | 2022-06-02 βœ… Patent 12,130,197 granted on 2024-10-29
US20220170815A1
Physics

Optical fiber endface inspection microscope having a dual illumination source

#16 | 2022-04-28 βœ… Patent 11,879,802 granted on 2024-01-23
US20220128434A1
Physics

Testing optical fiber link continuity using OTDR backscattering patterns

#17 | 2022-03-10 βœ… Patent 11,624,680 granted on 2023-04-11
US20220074810A1
Physics

Optical fiber endface inspection microscope having adapter tip detection and autoconfiguration

#18 | 2022-03-08 βœ… Patent 11,271,641 granted on 2022-03-08
US16740953
Electricity

OTDR method for end-to-end optical fiber link characterization

#19 | 2022-02-03 βœ… Patent 12,047,117 granted on 2024-07-23
US20220038177A1
Electricity

Optical-fiber device for one-cord reference optical power loss measurement

#20 | 2022-02-03 βœ… Patent 11,644,625 granted on 2023-05-09
US20220035104A1
Physics

Adapter tip and microscope system for inspection of fiber-optic connector endfaces

#21 | 2021-12-30 βœ… Patent 11,650,128 granted on 2023-05-16
US20210404909A1
Physics

Optical fiber recognition using backscattering pattern

#22 | 2021-12-23 βœ… Patent 11,522,939 granted on 2022-12-06
US20210400104A1
Electricity

Over-the-top media service testing and QoE issues isolation

#23 | 2021-12-23 βœ… Patent 11,514,651 granted on 2022-11-29
US20210398355A1
Physics

Utilizing augmented reality to virtually trace cables

#24 | 2021-09-09 βœ… Patent 11,726,002 granted on 2023-08-15
US20210278313A1
Physics

Optical test instrument with removable cartridge

#25 | 2021-09-02 βœ… Patent 11,595,125 granted on 2023-02-28
US20210273722A1
Electricity

Transceiver agnostic GOSNR measurement

#26 | 2021-07-01 βœ… Patent 11,480,496 granted on 2022-10-25
US20210199536A1
Physics

Test method for characterizing an optical fiber link

#27 | 2021-06-10 βœ… Patent 11,540,234 granted on 2022-12-27
US20210176716A1
Electricity

Automated narrow peak interference severity estimation

#28 | 2021-05-06 βœ… Patent 11,405,101 granted on 2022-08-02
US20210135752A1
Electricity

OTDR receive device with connectivity feedback

#29 | 2021-03-11 βœ… Patent 11,519,782 granted on 2022-12-06
US20210072077A1
Physics

Offset nulling for optical power meters

#30 | 2021-03-04 βœ… Patent 11,821,808 granted on 2023-11-21
US20210063274A1
Physics

Signature recognition on optical-fiber connector endfaces

#31 | 2020-12-10 βœ… Patent 11,125,648 granted on 2021-09-21
US20200386653A1
Physics

Duplicate OTDR measurement detection

#32 | 2020-12-08 βœ… Patent 10,862,582 granted on 2020-12-08
US16510396
Electricity

OTDR receive device with connectivity feedback

#33 | 2020-09-17 βœ… Patent 11,035,753 granted on 2021-06-15
US20200292416A1
Physics

Test device with both OTDR and WDM power meter modes

#34 | 2020-08-06 βœ… Patent 11,121,785 granted on 2021-09-14
US20200252144A1
Electricity

Detection and tracking of interferers in a RF spectrum with multi-lane processing

#35 | 2020-08-06 βœ… Patent 10,951,316 granted on 2021-03-16
US20200252125A1
Electricity

Fronthaul remote access and monitoring systems and methods to test fiber optic infrastructure and RF spectrum

#36 | 2020-08-06 βœ… Patent 11,067,478 granted on 2021-07-20
US20200249121A1
Physics

Optical loss testing of multi-fiber array cables

#37 | 2020-07-16 βœ… Patent 10,735,109 granted on 2020-08-04
US20200228210A1
Electricity

Automated analysis of RF spectrum

#38 | 2020-06-25
US20200200645A1
Physics

TEST METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING AN OPTICAL FIBER LINK

#39 | 2020-04-23 βœ… Patent 11,340,137 granted on 2022-05-24
US20200124498A1
Physics

Method and system for multi-link connection testing

#40 | 2020-04-16 βœ… Patent 11,181,440 granted on 2021-11-23
US20200116591A1
Physics

OTDR method targeting identified event

#41 | 2020-04-16 βœ… Patent 11,022,520 granted on 2021-06-01
US20200116590A1
Physics

Optical test instrument with removable cartridge

#42 | 2020-02-27 βœ… Patent 11,134,496 granted on 2021-09-28
US20200068552A1
Electricity

Auto-detection of AxC mapping within a CPRI link

#43 | 2020-02-20 βœ… Patent 11,025,524 granted on 2021-06-01
US20200059428A1
Electricity

Telecommunications network and services QOE assessment

#44 | 2019-12-26 βœ… Patent 10,900,866 granted on 2021-01-26
US20190391041A1
Physics

Optical fiber endface inspection with optical power measurement

#45 | 2019-12-19 βœ… Patent 10,659,178 granted on 2020-05-19
US20190386753A1
Electricity

Fronthaul remote access and monitoring systems and methods to test fiber optic infrastructure and RF spectrum

#46 | 2019-12-19 βœ… Patent 10,936,396 granted on 2021-03-02
US20190384664A1
Physics

Systems and methods for validation of test results in network testing

#47 | 2019-10-03 βœ… Patent 10,727,940 granted on 2020-07-28
US20190305845A1
Electricity

Noise-free measurement of the spectral shape of a modulated signal using spectral correlation

#48 | 2019-08-08 βœ… Patent 10,574,378 granted on 2020-02-25
US20190245641A1
Electricity

Optical power measurement in a passive optical network

#49 | 2019-06-27 βœ… Patent 11,016,772 granted on 2021-05-25
US20190196837A1
Physics

System and method for executing scripts in a virtual network function

#50 | 2019-06-06 βœ… Patent 10,591,385 granted on 2020-03-17
US20190170610A1
Physics

Method and system for multi-fiber cable testing

#51 | 2018-05-10 βœ… Patent 10,200,118 granted on 2019-02-05
US20180131437A1
Electricity

Multimode launch systems for use in performing an OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array DUT and method of performing same

#52 | 2018-03-15 βœ… Patent 10,270,554 granted on 2019-04-23
US20180076890A1
Electricity

Optical power measurement in a passive optical network

#53 | 2017-08-17 βœ… Patent 10,834,169 granted on 2020-11-10
US20170237800A1
Electricity

System and method of communicating with and controlling a test device

#54 | 2017-08-17 βœ… Patent 10,288,524 granted on 2019-05-14
US20170234767A1
Physics

Testing fiber arrangement in multi-fiber cables

#55 | 2017-05-25 βœ… Patent 10,014,935 granted on 2018-07-03
US20170149496A1
Electricity

Multiple-acquisition OTDR method and device

#56 | 2017-03-23 βœ… Patent 9,831,948 granted on 2017-11-28
US20170085318A1
Electricity

Optical power measurement in a passive optical network

#57 | 2017-03-23 βœ… Patent 9,900,087 granted on 2018-02-20
US20170085317A1
Electricity

Multimode launch systems for use in performing an OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array DUT and method of performing same

#58 | 2017-01-05 βœ… Patent 10,175,142 granted on 2019-01-08
US20170003195A1
Physics

Multiple-fiber connector inspection

#59 | 2016-11-24 βœ… Patent 9,880,359 granted on 2018-01-30
US20160341904A1
Physics

Adapter tip and microscope system for inspection of fiber-optic connector endface

#60 | 2016-11-17 βœ… Patent 9,825,700 granted on 2017-11-21
US20160337034A1
Electricity

Method and system for measuring an optical power attenuation value of a multimode device under test, receive device and computer-readable memory

#61 | 2016-08-25 βœ… Patent 9,641,243 granted on 2017-05-02
US20160248499A1
Electricity

Safe-mode OTDR method

#62 | 2016-07-14 βœ… Patent 10,018,785 granted on 2018-07-10
US20160202418A1
Physics

Optical fiber modal distribution conditioner

#63 | 2016-07-07 βœ… Patent 9,654,213 granted on 2017-05-16
US20160197674A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for testing transmission lines normally propagating optical signals

#64 | 2016-06-16 βœ… Patent 9,915,790 granted on 2018-03-13
US20160170151A1
Physics

Fiber inspection microscope and power measurement system, fiber inspection tip and method using same

#65 | 2016-06-09 βœ… Patent 9,749,043 granted on 2017-08-29
US20160164601A1
Electricity

Method for referencing an optical power loss measurement system, and associated computer readable memory and OPLM system

#66 | 2016-06-09 βœ… Patent 9,829,429 granted on 2017-11-28
US20160161397A9
Physics

Determining a polarization-related characteristic of an optical link

#67 | 2016-05-19 βœ… Patent 9,954,610 granted on 2018-04-24
US20160142135A1
Electricity

In-band noise determination on optical communication signals

#68 | 2016-05-05 βœ… Patent 10,128,975 granted on 2018-11-13
US20160127074A1
Electricity

In-band noise and/or spectral deformation measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals

#69 | 2016-01-14 βœ… Patent 9,571,186 granted on 2017-02-14
US20160013860A1
Electricity

Multiple-acquisition OTDR method and device

#70 | 2015-12-03 βœ… Patent 9,506,838 granted on 2016-11-29
US20150346054A1
Physics

Bi-directional multi-pulsewidth optical time-domain reflectometer

#71 | 2015-06-25 βœ… Patent 9,921,373 granted on 2018-03-20
US20150177469A1
Physics

Fiber-optic connector mating assembly for optical test instruments

#72 | 2015-04-23 βœ… Patent 9,673,899 granted on 2017-06-06
US20150110486A1
Electricity

In-band OSNR measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals

#73 | 2015-04-02 βœ… Patent 9,549,470 granted on 2017-01-17
US20150092363A1
Electricity

Transceiver module adapter device

#74 | 2015-04-02 βœ… Patent 9,841,579 granted on 2017-12-12
US20150092043A1
Physics

Multiple-fiber connector inspection

#75 | 2014-12-11 βœ… Patent 9,287,974 granted on 2016-03-15
US20140363157A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for testing transmission lines normally propagating optical signals

#76 | 2014-11-20 βœ… Patent 9,106,334 granted on 2015-08-11
US20140341564A1
Electricity

Method and system for common-mode-rejection-ratio (CMRR) characterization of an integrated coherent receiver

#77 | 2014-11-06 βœ… Patent 9,596,027 granted on 2017-03-14
US20140328586A1
Electricity

Signal deformation measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals

#78 | 2014-11-06 βœ… Patent 9,733,616 granted on 2017-08-15
US20140327735A1
Physics

Portable digital holographic probe for the inspection of optical fiber connectors, and inspection system and method for the same

#79 | 2014-10-09 βœ… Patent 9,450,854 granted on 2016-09-20
US20140301221A1
Electricity

Pass-through test device

#80 | 2014-07-17 βœ… Patent 9,134,197 granted on 2015-09-15
US20140198311A1
Physics

Bi-directional multi-pulsewidth optical time-domain reflectometer

#81 | 2014-05-29 βœ… Patent 9,423,316 granted on 2016-08-23
US20140146312A1
Physics

Optical reflectometer with loss and/or reflectance profile view

#82 | 2014-03-27 βœ… Patent 9,673,894 granted on 2017-06-06
US20140086574A1
Electricity

Characterization of linear crosstalk on multiplexed optical signals

#83 | 2014-02-06 βœ… Patent 9,170,173 granted on 2015-10-27
US20140037285A1
Electricity

Multiple-acquisition otdr method and device

#84 | 2013-12-12 βœ… Patent 9,438,336 granted on 2016-09-06
US20130330071A1
Electricity

Characterization of non-ASE noise on optical signals

#85 | 2013-06-27 βœ… Patent 8,787,753 granted on 2014-07-22
US20130163987A1
Electricity

Method and system for determining in-band optical noise

#86 | 2012-12-06 βœ… Patent 9,432,206 granted on 2016-08-30
US20120307666A1
Electricity

Testing network communications links

#87 | 2012-08-09 βœ… Patent 9,112,604 granted on 2015-08-18
US20120201533A1
Electricity

Reference-based in-band OSNR measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals

#88 | 2012-05-31 βœ… Patent 8,768,180 granted on 2014-07-01
US20120134667A1
Electricity

All-optical, phase sensitive optical signal sampling

#89 | 2011-07-28 βœ… Patent 9,325,428 granted on 2016-04-26
US20110182573A1
Electricity

Sampling-based balanced detection system

#90 | 2010-08-26 βœ… Patent 8,280,245 granted on 2012-10-02
US20100215357A1
Electricity

Optical sampling with coherent detection

#91 | 2009-12-17 βœ… Patent 7,957,436 granted on 2011-06-07
US20090310627A1
Electricity

Laser for providing pulsed light and reflectometric apparatus incorporating such a laser

#92 | 2009-10-29 βœ… Patent 8,482,725 granted on 2013-07-09
US20090268197A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for identification of multiple fibers using an OTDR

#93 | 2009-10-01 βœ… Patent 7,920,253 granted on 2011-04-05
US20090244522A1
Physics

Polarization optical time domain reflectometer and method of determining PMD

#94 | 2009-05-28 βœ… Patent 8,373,852 granted on 2013-02-12
US20090135409A1
Physics

Optical waveguide rotator mechanism, birefringence-inducing element and polarization control devices employing either or both and methods of using same

#95 | 2009-02-05 βœ… Patent 7,719,667 granted on 2010-05-18
US20090033919A1
Physics

Estimating loss of mechanical splices interconnecting optical fibers, and connector installation tool

#96 | 2008-08-14 βœ… Patent 7,710,552 granted on 2010-05-04
US20080192241A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for extracting light from an optical waveguide

#97 | 2007-07-05 βœ… Patent 7,995,915 granted on 2011-08-09
US20070154212A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for testing transmission lines normally propagating optical signals

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