ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,820, issued on May 6, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for providing route redundancy in networking systems" was invented by Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, Wash.) and Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing route redundancy for services at a service location of a PON include obtaining indications of a service location of the PON and a set of required services for the location; and detecting, based on geospatial locations and interconnections of optical components of the PON, that two or more physical polyline routes (each configured to supp...