ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,534, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Latency sensitive network plane via SR flex algorithm for layer 1 services" was invented by Bhupendra Yadav (Ottawa), Prabhu Vaithilingam (Kanata, Canada), Gerald Smallegange (Stittsville, Canada) and Alwyn Joy George (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include maintaining a network plane in Segment Routing (SR) Flexible Algorithm having a Flexible Algorithm Definition (FAD) based on latency; receiving a request for a service over a SR network where the service is sensitive to a specific latency; and determining a label stack including one o...