ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,576, issued on July 21, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Autonomous adaptive route-summarization" was invented by Anurag Prakash (Kanata, Canada), Praveen Kumar Mada (Kanata, Canada), Chaitanya Varma Guntumadugu (Kanata, Canada) and Jayesh Jayachandra Kumar (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus, comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: automatically determining for a plu...