ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,406, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADTRAN Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.).
"Communication resilience in a network" was invented by Richard Lee Goodson (Huntsville, Ala.), Darrin L. Gieger (Huntsville, Ala.), Andrew T. Ruble (Athens, Ala.) and Brent Priddy (Huntsville, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for resilient network communication are provided. In one aspect, a network includes multiple West NEs, spine elements, and East NEs. Each element has multiple physical communication interfaces. A working communication path connects the West NE to the East NE through a spine element. A protection communication path conn...