ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,996, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Dynamic shared risk link group (SRLG) compression" was invented by Narayan Padi (Cedar Knolls, N.J.), Gagan Choudhury (Jackson, N.J.), Kenichi Futamura (Middletown, N.J.), Shweta Vachhani (Edison, N.J.), Alvin C. Goddard (Kendall Park, N.J.), Timothy E. Gallivan (Marietta, Ga.) and Harpreet Ahluwalia (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a set of SRLGs associated with a set of link bundles, wherein the set of SRLGs comprises for each SRLG in the set of SRLGs an indication f...