US Patent Issued to CIENA on July 14 for "Secure aggregation of multiple network incognizant licensing services into a single service for the purpose of scaling and redundancy" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,019, issued on July 14, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Secure aggregation of multiple network incognizant licensing services into a single service for the purpose of scaling and redundancy" was invented by Robin Broadhead (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving at a license distribution system, information about a pool of license entitlements for deployment to network elements in a network to enable operational features of the network elements, receiving a deployment plan for distributing license entitlements of the pool of license entitlements...