ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,640, issued on July 28, was assigned to Harmonic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic software architecture reconfiguration for converged cable access platform (CCAP)" was invented by Adam Levy (Givaat Olga, Israel), Andrey Ter-Zakgariants (San Jose, Calif.), Anna Kopelnik (San Jose, Calif.) and Nitin Kumar (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) processing. A software-based CCAP environment is executed on one or more physical machines. The software-based CCAP environment is maintained by a plurality of functional blocks that are each implemented in software and perform a s...