US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on March 17 for "Universal loop detection in communication networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,999, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Universal loop detection in communication networks" was invented by Pranjal Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting loop detection in a communication network are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting loop detection in a communication network may be configured to support loop detection based on use of a recorded route bit string which may be inserted within packets for enabling detection of loops as the packets are communicated over the communication network. Vari...