US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 22 for "Detection of single points of failure in multiple shared risk link groups" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,716, issued on July 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection of single points of failure in multiple shared risk link groups" was invented by Kyle Louis Edwards (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rectangular equidistant projection is applied to coordinates for path fragments of a plurality of fiber optic routes. A bounding box is generated for each path fragment. For each cell of a grid of cells where its bounding box overlaps with a bounding box created by the cell, each path fragment is placed into the cell of the global grid. For any cell with more than one path fragment, each...