ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,671, issued on June 23, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Communication route allocation device, communication route allocation method, and program" was invented by Fumikazu Inuzuka (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention is a communication route allocation device including a route possibility extraction unit configured to extract connectable possible routes on the basis of utilization condition information of a network from among optical path routes connecting start points to end points of optical paths accommodating communication demand in the network, a core selection unit configured to...