US Patent Issued to CIENA on June 16 for "Apparatuses and methods for facilitating an active path inventory based on path caching and distribution techniques" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,264, issued on June 16, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating an active path inventory based on path caching and distribution techniques" was invented by John Wade Cherrington (Salt Spring Island, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first plurality of paths between a source and a destination included as part of a communication network or system, and providing at least a subset of the first plurality of paths to a plurality of worker nodes such that the plurality of worker nodes processes the subset of the firs...