ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,209, issued on June 9, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and system for prioritizing fault management sessions, Y.1731 sessions, and/or associated fault reporting" was invented by Priyanshu Lnu (Meerut, India) and Ashutosh Aggarwal (Saket, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding a plurality of fault management services in a network, wherein the plurality of fault management services respectively correspond to a plurality of fault management sessions, and wherein the data identifies priority information for at least one fault management ...