ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,449, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, integrated controller, control apparatus and switching method" was invented by Hiroshi O (Musashino, Japan), Tatsuya Shimada (Musashino, Japan), Tomoya Hatano (Musashino, Japan), Sei Kou (Musashino, Japan), Takashi Yamada (Musashino, Japan), Hirotaka Ujikawa (Musashino, Japan) and Yushi Koyasako (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system that includes a plurality of cloud resources, and a plurality of communication devices provided on a path for using any one of the plurality of cloud resources, the communication system inclu...