ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,486, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CERTAIN SIX Ltd. (London).

"System and techniques for intelligent network design" was invented by Alex Michael Metaxas (Banbury, Great Britain), Riccardo Scott (London), Joel Oughton (London), Charis Kyriakou (Peterborough, Great Britain) and Mark Leach (Ifield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and techniques for intelligent network design allows for capture and conversion of a basic network design, often manually created, into a digital format without duplication of effort. The disclosed techniques provide a faster, more intelligent approach for designing a network by anal...