ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,624, issued on June 30, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Exposing network key performance indicators to external clients via application programming interfaces" was invented by K M Sabidur Rahman (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yali Liu (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes calculating a first set of key performance indicators for a communications network based on data acquired from at least one source that is accessible to an operator of the communications network and publishing at least the first set of key performance in...