ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,767, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LLC (Dallas).

"Optimal placement of aggregator equipment in telecommunication networks" was invented by Lev B. Sofman (Allen, Texas) and David Curran (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for optimal placement of aggregator equipment in telecommunication networks. An embodiment operates by receiving, as an input, information corresponding to resource capacity of the one or more types of aggregator units and resource demands generated by a plurality of access nodes. The embod...