ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,437, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ECI Telecom Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).
"Optical communication network configuration" was invented by Efraim Gelman (Ramat Gan, Israel), Inbal Hecht (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Shirel Ezra (Ganei Tal, 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 a communications network using layer graph(s). The network management system can generate the layer graph(s) using a network graph that represents the optical communication network and an associated sets of available frequency slots. The network management system ...