ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,813, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ECI Telecom Ltd. (Petah Tivka, Israel).

"Communication network configuration" was invented by Ziv Shem-Tov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Shirel Ezra (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Efraim Gelman (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of demands on a communication network between a source node and a terminal node can be packed into a set of packages. Each package can be associated with a corresponding transceiver type. The packing of the set of demands into the set of packages can be performed using a heuristic method or a dynamic programming method. The packing of the set of demands ca...