ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,843, issued on March 17, was assigned to LATELEC (Toulouse, France).

"Method for determining an interconnection topology between switches of a communication network, corresponding computer program product and corresponding device" was invented by Guillaume Cros (L'Union, France) and Manuel Trollat (Saint-Orens de Gameville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an interconnection topology between switches of a communication network. Such a method includes, for at least one given leaf switch, determining an effective path for the communication of data between the leaf switch and a root switch, determining the...