US Patent Issued to CIENA on Oct. 20 for "Apparatuses and methods for facilitating modifications in networks and systems, accounting for the cost of enacting change across multiple time scales" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,598, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating modifications in networks and systems, accounting for the cost of enacting change across multiple time scales" was invented by John Wade Cherrington (Salt Spring Island, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining parametric data, analyzing the parametric data to identify a non-ideality with respect to a configuration of a network, performing, based on the analyzing of the parametric data, a cost-of-change analysis to identify whether one or more changes to the c...