ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,125, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ALE USA INC. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Method and system for improved interconnecting ring transition from open to closed state in LC-mode" was invented by Rithesh Gattu Murali (Calabasas, Calif.), Manu Nandhan (Calabasas, Calif.), Vivek Mishra (Calabasas, Calif.), Pranesh Acharya (Calabasas, Calif.) and Muthu Krishnan Veeraraghavan (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are devised for improved Interconnecting ring transition from open to closed state. The Interconnecting ring comprises a Media redundancy Interconnection Manager, MIM and at least three Media redu...