US Patent Issued to ADTRAN on July 8 for "Communication resilience in a ring network topology" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,588, issued on July 8, was assigned to ADTRAN Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Communication resilience in a ring network topology" was invented by Andrew T. Ruble (Athens, Ala.), Douglas T. Albright (Huntsville, Ala.), Darrin Leroy Gieger (Pell City, Ala.), Stefan Diener (Brandenburg, Germany) and Frank Below (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for communication resilience in a Ring Network Topology. In some aspects, a top Ethernet node, implemented in a Ring Network Topology ("RNT") that includes multiple additional Ethernet nodes, receive...