US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 7 for "Method and control program for automated configuration of a communication network comprising multiple virtual local area networks" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,776, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and control program for automated configuration of a communication network comprising multiple virtual local area networks" was invented by Volker Gsanger (Kammerstein, Germany), Wolfgang Schwering (Rottenbach, Germany), Torsten Keidel (Erlangen, Germany) and Andreas Rehm (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and control program for automatically configuring a communication network with a plurality of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), wherein for each VLAN, starting from communication terminals on ports of switches and/or routers along paths ass...