ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,139, issued on June 10, was assigned to ECI Telecom Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"Optical communication network configuration" was invented by Inbal Hecht (Petah Tikva, Israel), Efraim Gelman (Ramat Gan, Israel), Shirel Ezra (Ganei Tal, Israel), Ziv Shem-Tov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Hayim Porat (Rishon LeTsyion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system can be configured to identify routes for satisfying a set of demands on an optical communication network using layer graph(s). The layer graph edges can have edge scores that indicate a cost of the edge. The network management system can generate the layer g...