ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,455, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BE BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES (BBT.LIVE) LTD. (Lapid, Israel).

"System and method for the management and optimization of software defined networks" was invented by David Hay-Saikevich (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Almog Duek (Hod HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented for the generation and configuration of a software-defined network (SDN) utilizing highly adaptable multi-purpose gateway modules (xGWs) capable of speciation in order to fulfill various specific roles within the SDN, thereby providing an enhanced ability for data packet and data stream management t...