ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,371, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication path finding device, communication path finding 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 aspect of the present invention is a communication path search device that constructs a multicast path of a plurality of nodes connected to a network, the communication path search device including a network device information management unit configured to manage a device s...