US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on June 3 for "Distributed optical circuit allocation in optical data-center networks (ODCN)" (Israeli, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,750, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokenam, Israel).

"Distributed optical circuit allocation in optical data-center networks (ODCN)" was invented by Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas (Piraeus, Greece), Eitan Zahavi (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Ilion, Greece), Michael Schapira (Modi'in, Israel) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distributed allocation of data paths in an optical network (100) including optical switches (30, 32, 130) connected by optical links (44, 140), includes receiving a request for a data path for connecting a source node (10)...