US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on May 20 for "Optical domain controller of a telecommunications network" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,885, issued on May 20, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Optical domain controller of a telecommunications network" was invented by William Feight (Bennett, Colo.), Tara Joseph-Labrie (Centennial, Colo.), James M. Adkins III (Bennett, Colo.) and Clyde David Cooper III (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for an optical domain controller for managing and maintaining a record of network component configuration and interconnections. The optical domain controller detects changes in a configuration of optical network elements in respo...