ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,800, issued on July 28, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a pattern-driven scalable scheduling framework for network graph workloads" was invented by Pravin Tripathi (Lucknow, India), Gurpreet Singh (Amristsar, India) and Jatin Sahni (Uttarakhand, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a graph, applying a first algorithm to the graph to obtain at least one elementary path, applying a rule to each of the at least one elementary path to obtain a respective sanitized elementary path, applying a second algorithm, based ...