ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,871, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating new user feedback in cognitive networks" was invented by 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 embodiment, a device obtains a training dataset to train a machine learning model to predict a quality of experience metric for an online application accessible via a computer network. The device identifies a range of modifications to a telemetry metric in the training dataset that would be realistic with respect to th...