US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 26 for "Out-of-band signaling and energy consumption based routing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,007, issued on May 26, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Out-of-band signaling and energy consumption based routing" was invented by Dan Druta (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor deployed in a communication network may obtain at least a first energy usage indicator of at least a first network element of the communication network, obtain a selection of an energy factor-based routing for at least one packet, and route the at least one packet in response to the selection of the energy factor-based routing, where the energy factor-based routing is ...