US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on March 4 for "Optimization function generation apparatus, optimization function generation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,524, issued on March 4, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optimization function generation apparatus, optimization function generation method, and program" was invented by Kazuhiro Miyahara (Tokyo), Keitaro Horikawa (Tokyo) and Kinya Tomita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology for creating an optimization function for solving a bandwidth allocation plan problem for determining bandwidths to be allocated for respective paths under various constraints regarding the paths for which bandwidths are to be allocated, the optimization function relating to a variable that represents a qua...