ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,880, issued on April 21, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).
"Integrated network evaluation troubleshooting tool" was invented by Thomas L. Du Breuil (Ivyland, Pa.), Robert S. Heiman (Warrington, Pa.) and Joseph Wilson Monaco (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for determining the amount of latency between a video core and a remote device by inserting null packets in a data stream between the video core and the remote device, the null packets including respective time stamps demarking respective times of departure from the video core."
The patent was filed on Feb. 27, 2023, unde...