ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,804, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Testing framework for language model-based computer network troubleshooting 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 configures an impairment scenario in a computer network. The device performs an evaluation of the impairment scenario by a language model-based troubleshooting agent. The device makes a comparison between a root cause assoc...