US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Methods for capacity provisioning in wide area networks using optical bypassing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods for capacity provisioning in wide area networks using optical bypassing" was invented by Rachee Singh (Redmond, Wash.), Nikolaj S. Bjorner (Woodinville, Wash.), Yawei Yin (Redmond, Wash.), John Frederick Arnold (Snohomish, Wash.) and Jamie Gaudette (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining an optical bypass for an inter-regional wide area network (WAN) for regions of server facilities of a cloud service provider. In particular, the optical bypass connects non-adjacent regional ser...