US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on March 11 for "Cable network regional connectivity planning method and apparatus" (Chinese, Chinese, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,123, issued on March 11, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Cable network regional connectivity planning method and apparatus" was invented by Tianjiao Wang (Linyi, China), Zengfu Wang (Xi'an, China), Moshe Zukerman (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Bill Moran (Balwyn, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a cable network planning method comprising: modelling the prespecified topology as a Steiner tree including a plurality of terminal nodes representing a plurality of cable landing stations (CLSs) to be installed respectively in a plurality of destination regions connect...