ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,814, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for qualifying on-ramp facilities 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 qualifying on-ramp facilities of a networking system in which a PON is included include obtaining indications of a new service location and a set of required services to be provided via the PON at the new service location, and filtering, based on geospatial coordinates of the location, a set of on-ramp facilities to obtain a group of candidat...