US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for optimal path determination using contraction hierarchies with multi-link constraints" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,648, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for optimal path determination using contraction hierarchies with multi-link constraints" was invented by Hayden Sean White (Kaiapoi, New Zealand) and Nathan M. Robinson (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may provide a technique for the generation of a node map using contraction hierarchy techniques in a manner that accounts for multi-link constraints. Multi-link constraints may include a sequence of two or more links through the node map, and paths that include such mu...