ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,784, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cascaded connection matrices in a distributed cross-connection system" was invented by Michael Ho (Burnaby, Canada), Miriam Qunell (Naperville, Ill.) and Jean-Michel Cala (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for interconnecting multiple distributed components in a communication network is provided. The design includes a multiple order cross connection fabric employed to interconnect multiple orders of data with at least one distributed component in the communication network. The design may further include at least one order of pat...