US Patent Issued to NTT on Dec. 30 for "Connection optimization device, connection optimization method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,047, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Connection optimization device, connection optimization method, and program" was invented by Takeru Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Toru Mano (Musashino, Japan), Kazuya Anazawa (Musashino, Japan) and Hideki Nishizawa (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection optimization device that optimizes connections between a plurality of FXC switches for switching connections of optical fibers includes a optimization unit for receiving, as inputs, a number k of FXC switches, a number n of sending/receiving ports, and a connection probability matrix C of the sending/receivi...