ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,834, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ORCKIT IP LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Method for supporting SNCP over packet network" was invented by Daniel Cohn (Raanana, Israel) and Rafi Ram (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while ...