ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,506, issued on May 27, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).
"Network management using hierarchical and multi-scenario graphs" was invented by Ulrich A. Finkler (Mahopac, N.Y.), Fook-Luen Heng (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Steven N. Hirsch (Burlington, Vt.), Mark A. Lavin (Katonah, N.Y.), Jun Mei Qu (Beijing), Amith Singhee (Bangalore, India) and Wei Wu (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product to manage a network comprising a plurality of interconnected components are described. The method includes obtaining a set of all the components that are part of the network over t...