ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,758, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Optimized dynamic host configuration protocol communication for an optical line terminal device" was invented by Kiran Kumar K (Bangalore, India), Jayadev H R (Bangalore, India), Subramanya Sharma P K (Bangalore, India) and Venkatesh Padebettu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an optical line terminal (OLT) device may identify one or more client devices that are connected to the OLT device via one or more communication links. The OLT device may determine, based on identifying the one or more client devices, one or...