US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 10 for "Optical path design apparatus, optical path design method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,037, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical path design apparatus, optical path design method and program" was invented by Takafumi Tanaka (Musashino, Japan), Takuya Ohara (Musashino, Japan), Fumikazu Inuzuka (Musashino, Japan), Takuya Oda (Musashino, Japan) and Masayuki Shimoda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical path design device includes: a search unit configured to search for one or more route possibilities from a start point to an end point in an optical network including one or more transmission paths as links and a plurality of node devices as nodes on the basis of topology infor...