US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Coordinating selection of a path between a source node and a destination node in a network" (New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,981, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Coordinating selection of a path between a source node and a destination node in a network" was invented by Md Abdul Alim (White Plains, N.Y.), Ali Sydney (Pepperell, Mass.) and Bengi Karacali-Akyamac (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for coordinating selection of a path between a source node and a destination node in a network. The source node selects a first path to a destination node based on source switch port utilization information for ports in a local source swi...