ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,876, issued on March 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for determining operational aspects of network equipment and devices" was invented by Mehdi Malboubi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Baofeng Jiang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving data associated with network equipment operating in a communication system, determining from the data inferential parameters that describe operations of the network equipment; and determining, from the inferential parameters, one or more behavioral profiles of one or more n...