ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,222, issued on June 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Making a what-if scenario evaluation in a green elastic network with partial traffic and topology information" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device queries an ontology that represents entities in a computer network and their relationships for a particular topology in the computer network. The device computes a mathematical system that represent...