ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,340, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Spectrum-aware cross-layer optimization" was invented by Rodolfo Enrique Alvizu Gomez (San Jose, Calif.), Anurag Sharma (Cupertino, Calif.), Christina Vlachou (San Francisco) and Rene Marcel Schmogrow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Allocating network resources to one or more signals that are to be conveyed over the network by calculating a transport capacity for a sublink of the network based on a spectral efficiency of at least one subpath included in the sublink, and allocating the sublink to at least one signal based on the calculated t...