ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,437, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Evaluation framework for LLM-based network troubleshooting and monitoring agents" was invented by Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device uses a large language model-based agent to perform a task in a network, to obtain a first result. The device executes code in the network to perform the task, to obtain a second result. The device makes a comparison between t...