ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,013, issued on May 27, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Bandwidth allocation" was invented by Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium), Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sarvesh Sanjay Bidkar (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical line terminal is disclosed. The optical line terminal comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory including machine-readable instructions. The at least one memory and the machine-readable instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the optical line terminal to determine based ...