ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,230, issued on April 29, was assigned to ECI Telecom Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"Communication network configuration" was invented by Efraim Gelman (Ramat Gan, Israel), Hayim Porat (Rishon LeTsyion, Israel) and Inbal Hecht (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Headend nodes on a communication network can be configured to recover from a change of network conditions by generating new paths for demands. A headend node can generate paths both for demand(s) managed by the headend and other demand(s) managed by other headend(s). The headend nodes can be initialized with the same network representation and can deterministicall...